Only a wild guess, but the . is special in that sense that it is the decimal separator for floats. An IP address does superficially look like a floating point number. Could there some conversion between symbols and numbers happen somewhere?
best greetings, Thomas
----- Original Message ----- From: "martin pi" pi@attacksyour.net To: PD-dev@iem.at Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: [PD-dev] symbol bug?
hi list,
i encountered a strange phenomenon and do not know if it is a bug? is the dot "." a special character in symbols and i did not know?
following situation: i've got an ip adress aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd stored in a symbol. when i connect 2 chords at the outlet i get the full adress on the first outlet and only aaa on the second. also, if i use 2 netsend with connect messages in one patch the ip adress seems to get lost (except the first 3 digits) sometimes.
i've encountered this in 0.36, 0.37 and a recent cvs version. iohannes zmoellnig has also seen it happen, so maybe he could find better words to describe the bug/behaviour.
platform is linux, tried it out on two computers.
any comments welcome. martin
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