----- Original Message ----- > From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > To: IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:51 AM > Subject: Re: [PD] symbol2list leading zero > > Le 2011-11-03 à 09:20:00, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit : >> On 2011-11-02 18:06, rolf meesters wrote: >>> would it then be necessary, working with texts, always to check if > one's >>> not accidentally losing zero's? >> >> btw, you are not "losing" any zeros. >> whether your pay cheque says "100,-€" or > "000000000000100,-€" does not >> make any difference, when it comes to buying your marmite. those numbers >> are exactly the same. > > And this is exactly not what Rolf is talking about. > > Surely you know the difference between string comparisons and number > comparisons... > > If someone just wants to split lists instead of converting to floats and > getting > weird answers on pd-list, there's [gf/s2l], which does not do anything else > than splitting (as it is like with any string-splitter outside of pd/max).
Once split, is there a way to convert symbol-atom "19.95" to a float? -Jonathan > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
