Hello community,

I am working on a sampler to run as vst via camomile and I try to find a way how to store a symbol in a textfile. So far it just stores some weird message in the textfile. This is roughly how I do it:

[bang]
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[openpanel]
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[symbol]
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[read $1 $0-mytext(
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[text define $0-mytext] (or: [textfile]

Can somebody tell me what I do wrong?
Thanks in advance!

@Jinkgo It looks like you want to save a filename to [text]....... ?
By the way, $0 in a message box is meaningless in Pd......
Come back if you don't want the full path to the filename saved..... that will be more complex.

ALSO...... if you use $0 in the name $0-mytext it will make a new textfile sometimes when you open your patch....... depending on whether you have other patches open already...... so you will have no idea which one is which...... best to not use $0 in this case.
David.

If you want the contents of a .txt file read into [text] then it is even simpler......

@whale-av thank you very much! And yes, I want to store the whole path And thanks for the heads up concerning the $0 in the message box. Actually I know it, but I forget it from time to time.
And I'm not sure what you mean that PD creates a new textfile when there are several patches running? But I have 20 paths I want to save. And it is less work to do it with abstractions using $0.

Josh

@Jinkgo If you save $0-mytext ((using the [write( message)) it will actually be saved as 1001-mytext....... or if you have another patch open with three abstractions in it then it will be saved as 1005-mytext.
Not a problem if you don't want to store it for later...... but impossible to reliably read it back into your patch when you re-open it.
David.

I followed your advice and managed it with routing everything to a single soundfile. Thank you! Now I am trying to figure out how it is possible to just store the name of the file without the path. This I need to show in the camomile plugin what file is on which key. Do you have any advice there?
Thank you very much,
Josh

@Jinkgo Yes, anything is possible in Pd except for finding a girlfriend......
[symbolic].......... filename_only.zip
You need the other two objects in the same folder, as they do most of the work.
There is probably a simpler way and someone will post if they can think of it.
David.

Oh man thank you! I would have never come up with that! Still working on the matter concerning the girlfriend though.
Josh

@Jinkgo @whale-av to split the name of the path i always use [splitfilename /]. It is some external though; iemlib if i remember correct.

about a year ago @ingox made a vanilla list drip https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11122/faster-list-drip-with-list-store-pd-0-48

using that patch (in a sub patch) I just made this filename splitter

filename-split.pd