On 2021-03-17 14:25, Christof Ressi wrote:
pdsend/pdreceive uses the FUDI protocol (= Pd messages), where strings that look like floats are converted to a float atom. When serializing between FUDI strings and Pd atoms, the textual result is not guaranteed to be the same for number atoms.
i see
the resulting output from [netreceive -u 3001] will be:
udp: "01 2 3 4 05.txt"
Are you sure? Because I get
1 2 3 4 05.txt
yes, i am sure, at least for my system (Win7 / PD 0.51.4). see attached .jpg. (i'm getting the same truncations without the quotes btw.)
which is what I would expect. The float atoms are properly serialized to their string representation (Pd doesn't remember the original text!) and "05.txt" is actually a symbol.
is there any way to sent such a symbol untruncated using the methods above,
If you want to send it as a single symbol, that's possible, you just have to escape the whitespace:
"01\ 02\ 0003\ 004\ 05.txt"
thank you very much, that was a pointer in the right direction ! i figured, since the white spaces by themselves where transmitted correctly, i wouldn't have to worry about them, but literally escaping white spaces within my .tcl script (by forcing a backslash before every white space) seems to do the trick !
best
oliver
