Thankes Johannes,

This is great for one direction, but I can't figure out how to reverse your patch to build a symbol out of a sequence of chars. An object to append a char to a symbol (not list) seems the easiest..

I'd prefer a patch solution (or existing external) before I try and write one!

Thanks Ben

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

B. Bogart wrote:

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Hey all,

Is there an external (or abstraction) that takes a symbol and passes out each char one by one in order?

you could use [symbol2list] ([s2l]) (part of "zexy") by default it will split between spaces, but you can change the delimiter to "nothing" by giving the second inlet an empty symbol

mfg.a.sdr IOhannes

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