Hey guys,

Is there any quick way to grab the size of an array? I can't find this documented anywhere in the Pd docs. The benefit here would be it would be much easier to build a generic sampler that could loop any sample of arbitrary length and not have to set that manually.

[arraysize] do it :
http://pure-data.sourceforge.net/old/documentation.php#arraysize

but you can also change the size of an array with the [resize< message at loading time...

yes. the outlet of [soundfiler] gives the sample size, which will be the same size as your array if you use the -resize message when loading your samples.

Ah, that's perfect. I'm not familiar with that object, but I remember seeing this:
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1187-abstraction-why-use-etc

i'm on pd 39-3 ext. and I can't seem to bring up [arraysize]. What library is it in, or where can I find the object for download? Haven't located it yet...
thanks.

there is the [get] object, which gets table sizes, IIRC.

I was doing a search on [arraysize] and I found this thread.

Don't use this external-- instead, use [expr size("array-name")] which will work out of the box with Pd Vanilla, Pd Extended and Pd-l2ork. To make the table name settable use [expr size("$s1")] and send the name of the table to the inlet. (You can also do [expr size("$s2")] if you want to be able to set the table name through the 2nd inlet.)

If you use [arraysize] your patch may not work for people using Pd Vanilla because that object doesn't ship with it.

I don't use Pd Vanilla myself, nor do I make an effort to make my patches compatible with it when it means using ugly hacks or extra work. But expr's "size" operator is straightforward and documented clearly in Pd Extended. There's no need to create and use externals when they just duplicate already existing features without adding anything.

i made this abstraction for varispeed. has a way to set array to sample in it

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/varispeed-looper.pd

Not to offend anyone, but there really comes some spam with extended (not that much) while a real killer feature like [vst~] was dropped

Spam? I haven't seen a single ad in Pd-extended.

somewhere there is [pd length] from list documentation that gives size of data

Slightly exaggerated, but you get the point