Re: [PD] help - building txt reader Gem

Hi!

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

if you want words, just use separate list atoms: a 3-atom list "1 2 3" will result in a text "1 2 3" (with blanks!)

Maybe it's a silly newbie question, but: I couldn't generate a list with multiple blanks in it. I tried following versions:

• [list 1 2 3( which results in 1 2 3 (as I'd expect)
• your example: [list "1 2 3"( which results in "1 2 3", cause " is not

a string quota

• [list 1 / 2 3( results in 1 / 2 3
• [list 1 \ 2 3( can't be input (pd: "\: dropped")

I even tried some weird things like:

• [list 1   2 3(
• [list '1 2 3'(
• [list 1 /0x20 2 3(
• [list 1 #0x20 2 3(
• [list 1 &0x20 2 3(

Blanks you suggested are just atom separators, so it's a special case of blanks in a string. Dominic wrote about ascii art with multiple blanks. How to encode a text file with multiple blanks which will be correctly read by [textfile]?

br and lG aus Wien, Piotr