Roman Haefeli wrote:
hi all
more and more i realize that i can do most basic things in pd without externals. before all, the introduction of [list] made many objs of externals, that i used a lot, obsolete. one (in my eyes) basic task remains uncovered by list: splitting symbols into lists (e.g. separated by a separator-char). it would be very nice, if this could be done in future versions of pd.
i would like to see a [sscanf] object.... and a [sprintf] one too.
these are standard functions of C language.
[sprintf] would act like [makefilename], except that accept more than one variable (makefilename gives unpredictable results sending lists with a format string like a%d_b%d).
so, an example of how [sprintf] should act:
[list foo bar 34( | [sprintf %s-%s-%d]
would return a symbol: foo-bar-34 and sscanf would do the inverse job:
[symbol foo-bar-34( | [sscanf %s-%s-%d]
would return a list: symbol foo, symbol bar, float 34
consider this just a request for comment :)
ciao Federico