Here's a vanilla approach using the .n sprintf function of makefilename. Not completely tested...

Matt

On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

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On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:26 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

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title says it all. Any external capable of doing this (other than resorting to something like a pyext)?

Ico

[symbol yoursymbol( | |          [loadbang] |          | |          [symbol( <- empty symbol |          | [symbol2list] <- from  zexy | [list length]

though, i haven't checked, if this approach still works, when the incoming symbol contains spaces (or other 'special' characters).

roman

That would make a nice object, like [symbollength].

.hc

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