Strange things like this can happen if someone inadvertently writes a new string into an existing symbol... i.e., never do this: strcat(sym->s_name, "cat").

MAybe there was already a symbol somewhere else whose name is "cat" and then you'll have 2 symbols with teh same name but different addresses. (I've seen people do this, in various ways, before).

cheers Miller

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 03:22:19AM -0400, Jaime E Oliver wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to compare two symbols, one incoming in a list into an external and the other one stored internally in the external.

It compiles fine, but I don't get a match.

c code is below. Ideas on what I'm missing?

J

void testtext_input(t_testtext *x, t_symbol *selector, int argcount, t_atom *argvec) { int i; const t_symbol *storedsymbol = gensym("mysymbol"); for (i = 0; i < argcount; i++) { if (argvec[i].a_type == A_SYMBOL) { if ( argvec[i].a_w.w_symbol->s_name == storedsymbol) post("found match!"); } } _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list