I think it should work using "normal" escaping mechanisms
The shell does all the escaping it needs to do before passing the
argument string vector to the program (in Oliver's case the 'echo' program).
ie. "quoted" strings end up as symbols in Pd.
pdsend gets its messages from stdin, which is an character *stream* that
has no notions of tokens. So the only option is to use Pd's own escape
sequences.
Christof
On 18.03.2021 13:18, Dan Wilcox wrote:
My thoughts too. I think it should work using "normal" escaping
mechanisms on the command line and lead to predictable results, ie.
"quoted" strings end up as symbols in Pd.
The fault could also lie in pesend which should do the escaping before
sending as well.
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On 3/17/21 2:25 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
Note the different position of the backslash! I'm not sure if this
particular escaping behavior is actually intended or just works by
chance... Generally, it would be great to document Pd's string escaping,
because it is not entirely obvious.
something like that was reported as
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1277
<https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1277>
i'm pretty convinced that the backslash escaping of numbers to force
them to symbols is accidental and should not be relied on.
whenever i find the time, i would like to fix this bug.
gfmdasr
IOhannes
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