Hi
I was wandering what the vanilla way (no externals) to convert a float number to a symbol would be?
I was messing around with [symbol $1( which didn't work, but if I put any character even a number in front of the $1, the $1 part converted. So by putting a non-breaking space (ascii 160) in front, just the $1 just the number appears to convert (although it is offset to the right by one character.

What would be the right way to do this?

Cheers
Balwyn

vanilla float to symbol.pd

@Balwyn That's interesting Balwyn. This is one of many reasons that I cannot move to vanilla, as it will not unfold some osc messages correctly....... vanilla_bug_oscparse.pd........... a float tagged as a symbol and so un-routable. Your post makes me think that maybe [oscparse] replaces / with whitespace which makes the integer appear to be a symbol???

Does the output show in a symbol box? I look forward to you solving the offset, as I imagine that would still break [route]......... its a start though!!
David.

Here's an abstraction I made to convert integers to symbols. Floats should be trickier. It interests me, but will try to implement it tomorrow or something. Check out how it's working and see if it's ok for you.
int2sym.pd

@alexandros Hi, it works well for positive integers but not for negative
Cheers
Balwyn

@whale-av I placed a [$1( between [route volume] and [pack f f] and the number flows through without complaining. So messages seem to do some converting.
Cheers
Balwyn

Pretty trivial to make it work with negative numbers int2sym.pd

In the case of a float though it's pretty hard as there are rounding errors which will cause a patch to have strange behavior. I'm trying to implement it, but when there's a 3, 4, or 8 in the fractional part, I get rounding errors. Then you have to consider scientific notation as well...

@whale-av Does the output show in a symbol box? I look forward to you solving the offset, as I imagine that would still break [route]

OK here is a version that addresses the offset simply by moving the non-breaking space (or any character) after the $1, but I don't think it solves the [route] issue unless the whole string can be used eg volume/1n

vanilla-float-to-symbol-v2.pd

Done! I think this ticks all the boxes. Add any character to the end of the symbol message (eg [symbol $1^( then trim off the extra character. Thank you both @whale-av and @Alexandros for your help here

vanilla-float-to-symbol-v3.pd

@Balwyn I am giving you a sort of "qualified" upvote Balwyn! Not because the work you have done is not worthy of praise......... which it certainly is!......... but because your solution, unless it is widely publicised, is ( though it's not your fault) a hack........ wow!......... that was a mouthful..........
Very well done!
David.

It is a hack indeed, but it's pretty simple and works with any kind of float, int, positive, negative, value. It even works with scientific notation, which I thought would be pretty hard to achieve.
Nice one!

Sorry [makefilename %s] does it anyway. As I crawl away sheepishly

hi, what if I want to put
|192.168.1.12(
into a symbol?
obvious ways don't work.
any hint?

@bang this should work: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11866/change-comment-box-via-message/11

@bang said:

hi, what if I want to put
|192.168.1.12(
into a symbol?

These both work with Pd 0.48.1 on Win 10

@Balwyn your solution is much easier

@Balwyn Yes, it just needs to be tagged as a symbol, or even a single atom list (that is not a float) will be acceptable to the symbol box.
As it drops out of the message box it is untagged, as a gatom.
So [pack s] will work as well..... and [list]...... in this particular case.
David.

thanks, that worked!