Hallo, Hans Roels hat gesagt: // Hans Roels wrote:

Is it possible to split a symbol in Pd vanilla?

No.

F.e. I want to get the number 1 out of the send name 'pitch-1' I found some references about externals in this mailing list but not a solution in plain Pd. Is it impossible or has somebody found a trick?

You could rethink the way you use sends. If you want to get "1 something" when sending "something" to a receiver called "pitch-1" you could instead use a receiver called "pitch" and send "1 something" to it. I.e.:

old:

[something( | [s p-1]

[r p-1] | "something"

new:

[1 something( | [s p]

[r p] | [route 1] | "something"

This idiom often is more flexible in other regards, too, and a trick to remember.

Ciao

Frank