Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
Ok I have it.
This does work as expected:
[32( | [makefilename foo%cbar] | [set $1( | [ (
Then you can bang the last message box and feed its output to a [list length] to verify it is one symbol (well, not a symbol, one whatever).
But then, if I manually edit the message box and modify it (for example add some characters), then the space is reconverted to a "true space" and the symbol is broken.
that's because the contents of the msgbox get's reparsed when you edit it.
However, I've realised my particular case has a workaround, since I know that the box must contain one symbol, so I can glue it again with the "32->%c" trick.
if you want a real symbol, you could as well use
[set symbol $1(
or just believe the output of [makefilename] to be what you expect it to be.
(and there's zexy's [list2symbol] which will concatenate all the arguments of a list into a single symbol, the default delimiter being space.
I think a general escaping mechanism would really be needed in PD!!!
yes.
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