Thomas Sivertsen wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
spaces are used to separate atoms from each other. to get individual atoms out of a list, either use [unpack] or [$2(, [$3(,... (note that you cannot get the selector with [$0( or whatever)
unpack doesn't behave, for some odd reason. It keeps the message as is. Must have been a brqainfart or something. I'm quite familiar with pack and unpack from my 4 years of using Max...
well, "my" [unpack] behaves perfect. i really don't know what you want. if you have a message [symbol /bli/bla/bo(, then the message contains a single symbol (as is denoted by the selector "symbol") named "/bli/bla/bo" again: the symbol does *not* consist of 2 parts ("symbol" and "/bli/bla/bo") but only of one typed part "/bli/bla/bo".
with [unpack] you can extract atoms of "lists". example: your message is [list 1 2 3(; again "list" is just a type-selector (to state that the one or more atoms ("1" "2" and "3") of the message form a list. now if you send the message [list 1 2 3( (or only [1 2 3( which is just an abbreviation(!) for [list 1 2 3() to [unpack 0 0 0] you will get the numbers "1" "2" and "3" out of the outlets. the numbers are messages too: "1" is really [float 1( (and not just [1(, which again can be used as an abbreviation(!)).
confused ?
mfg.ad.sr IOhannes