On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

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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