Ali Momeni wrote:

Hello all,

What is everyone's favorite way to format text in simple ways, a la
something like sprintf?

actually PD's message box can be manipulated in pretty powerful ways, more than MAX's message box can do. see the subpatch "pd changing-messages" in the message-help.pd file !


that combined with [makefilename] does pretty much everything i need for text formatting.



[makefilename] also has an undocumented padding method.

f.e.: sending the float number 13 to

|makefilename %05d|

will output the symbol "00013"




you can even create $0-messages with this little trick:

|list $ 0 somename(
|
|$1$2-$3-rrr(
|
|print TRYIT|

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