Thank you! [mrpeach/binfile] works perfectly for what I need.
I was already using the "string" message with [text2d]. The problem was only to "read" the spaces with [textfile] which seems to be impossible. Reading it with [mrpeach/binfile] and changing it to a "string" message does the trick. Ingo > Betreff: Re: [PD] how to type more than one "space" in GEM with [text2d] - [textfile] > output? > > On 2010-04-18 16:16, Martin Peach wrote: > > Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > >> > >> Is there an object that can read textfiles (or any other file type) that > >> includes "spaces" and can output these spaces (as something) so I can > >> convert them to "ascii 32" or "ascii 160"? > >> > > > > [mrpeach/binfile] will output raw bytes from any file, so spaces in a > > text file will show up as 32. > > and Gem is (almost[1]) able to directly read these via the "string" message. > that's all documented for [text3d], and all [text*] objects basically > have the same interface. > > gmasd > IOhannes > > > [1] if you only use ASCII; if you want to use extended characters, you > have to convert the UTF-8 bytes that you get out from [binfile] into > Unicode-codepoint numbers. there's an abstraction somewhere in > iem/unicode/ that does just that. > i seem to remember that something like this was on the list just recently... _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list