Actually, there is a way if you have GEM.

There is an object called strcat which was made to do exactly this (although the implementation is a little strange...)

Make an object "strcat foobar" Then, every message which is passed into the inlet will be appended to the foobar string. So for instance, if you had a message box with "symbol dog", it would output foobardog.

Be aware that numbers are floating point and they end up being _really_ long numbers (with lots of zeros). This is because they used to be ints and the code never changed.

Later, Mark

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-----Original Message----- From: Miller Puckette [mailto:mpuckett@man104-1.UCSD.EDU] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 1:47 PM To: Iain.Mott@cmis.CSIRO.AU; pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Subject: Re: conjugal symbols

Sorry, I don't think there's any way, short of writing a new object to do this. When I get argument concatenation to work, you'll be able to say "makefilename $1%s".

Miller

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i'm stuck trying to join two symbols together eg. "23" + "phrase1" = "23phrase1".

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