[PD] numberstream, parsing

Hi list,

I built a little something on a pic, that sends data over rs232. in pd, I can read that data using the [comport] object (great stuff!) I'm reading a number of turn-knobs and so I output 5 numbers that have to be sorted. by sending the stream as 'ascii' ( I send ascii corresponding number, including linefeed, carriage return etc. ) I can perfectly read the stuff in terminal programs, or by doing cat /dev/ttyS0

This is a bit hard in pd, I haven't figured out a way to do this 'elegantly'

anyone have some suggestions? preferably I would have something that would see it as 'ascii' ...?

this the idea:

[comport] | [parser] | [unpack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

it's gotta be trivial isn't it? some external somewhere?

bye!

Matthijs.