I made a very small external to do this, I have included the source below. I haven't tried to recompile this, but it worked well on a linux box when I did it (a few years ago). Note that as it creates new symbols each time around, it will apparently overflow something if used for a while. But it works for a while.
I have attached a text patch below too.
I hope it's useful to someone....
tim
On Aug 15, 2005, at 7:29 AM, Daniel Wilken wrote:
Hello again.
I'm looking for a way to treat the individual letters of a text file as symbols. I'm guessing I'll need to manipulate the files ahead of time to separate the words into letter so I can end up with a list to treat with [packel], but I'm curious if there's not a character level indexing tool within PD.
In other words. My files will be plain text. And I want to avoid having to: I n o t h e r w o r d s .
You get the picture.
Is this possible within PD?
Thanks again,
-Dan
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