Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > Ok I have it. > > This does work as expected: > > [32( > | > [makefilename foo%cbar] > | > [set $1( > | > [ ( > > Then you can bang the last message box and feed its output to a [list > length] to verify it is one symbol (well, not a symbol, one whatever). > > But then, if I manually edit the message box and modify it (for example > add some characters), then the space is reconverted to a "true space" > and the symbol is broken.
that's because the contents of the msgbox get's reparsed when you edit it. > > > However, I've realised my particular case has a workaround, since I know > that the box must contain one symbol, so I can glue it again with the > "32->%c" trick. if you want a real symbol, you could as well use [set symbol $1( or just believe the output of [makefilename] to be what you expect it to be. (and there's zexy's [list2symbol] which will concatenate all the arguments of a list into a single symbol, the default delimiter being space. > > > I think a general escaping mechanism would really be needed in PD!!! yes. mfgasdf IOhannes
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