On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.atwrote:
As long as its a float, it'll be converted to the simplest form. So 0 is the simplest form of 00. The same would happen with 0.0000. So if you need 00 in a symbol, you'll need generate it by some other method first, like sending the list [0 0( to [list2symbol].
understand i well then, that parsing an unknown text the character '0' runs the risk of disappearing when it's in a 'wrong' position. and in Pd i will never know when this has happened.
If you are using this for MAC addresses or other similar numbers, they usually consider 0 and 00 the same thing.
in WindowsXP register all the characters are needed in one string.
rolf
On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:06 PM, "rolf meesters"
rolfmeesters@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i'm using
[symbol2list -] | | [symbol( | | | [list2symbol]
on something like 00-ab-87-02. the result becomes 0ab872. so, i'm losing the leading zero's.
in other words the symbol '00' is handled like a number, probably any symbol that looks like a number is immediately treated like that. which, in the case above is unexpected (at least for me).
would it then be necessary, working with texts, always to check if one's not accidentally losing zero's?
rolf
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