Oops Iain, I thought this was on the Pd-Dev list :)

you can do:

[(out 0 :foobar)(       // <--  message object
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[fudiformat -u]
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[list tosymbol]
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On 4/13/2021 8:47 PM, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:

May be this lines gives you lots of clues:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793


PS: I'm on my second Pd external and found the binbuf thing very useful. 


:)

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On 4/13/2021 7:56 PM, Iain Duncan wrote:
Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to have a bunch of text, with spacces, get treated as one symbol so that an external can work with it as one thing. In Max, I did this by using the tosymbol object, and then creating a message that was 'eval-string "(all my text as one string here)"'. Is there a Pd idiom for doing something similar that I should follow?  Use cases are 

a) someone enters code in a message box:  '(out 0 :foobar)'
b) code is received as a long string over osc or other network, and needs to be sent to the external

Apologies at the Pd ignorance, still trying to figure all this out while!
iain

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