Here it is with some comments, you are welcome!


On 23/09/17 18:04, Hrvoje Radnic wrote:
> Wow, thanks everybody for great solutions!
>
> Ingo's answer is the most satisfying for me because it stays in vanilla.
> For now, I will just subpatch it in my project and use it as a
> reference, but I must admit it will take some time before I really
> understand every part of that patch.
>
> All the best!
> 
> Hrvoje Radnic
> http://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova
> 00385(0)915225162
>
>
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> *From:* Ingo Stock <mail@ingostock.de>
> *To:* pd-list@lists.iem.at
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 23, 2017 3:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [PD] trim symbols?
>
> You can use [list fromsymbol] to convert the symbol to a list of ASCII
> values and than work on that. See attached patch, it should do what you
> want.
>
> Note that the patch assumes that the ending (like .wav) is always 4
> characters. Also it uses a simple list-drip mechanism that should be
> efficient for small lists, in doubt use list-drip of list-abs instead.
>
> best wishes, ingo
>
>
> On 23/09/17 14:33, Hrvoje Radnic via Pd-list wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to display the name of the .wav file loaded from the HDD
>> (using [openpanel]), but, without a full path and without the file
>> extension. For example, [openpanel] outputs "symbol
>> C:/Users/Hrvoje/Desktop/my_patches/SAMP_SEQ/samples/BD.wav" and I just
>> want "BD" to be displayed. Is it possible in pd vanilla? Thank you for
>> the help!
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Hrvoje Radnic
>> http://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova
>> 00385(0)915225162
>>
>>
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