I'm using [prepend open "/path to file/"] with coll. Coll has a listing convention;
[coll]
1, this is a file;
2, this is another file;

[coll]
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[prepend open "/path to file/"]
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[print]
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open /path to file/ this is a file

This works but there's a space before "this is a file". I've tried removing the space in the coll file but it doesn't work.

Any help or ideas?

Tried this? Does this do what you want?

[coll]
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[open pathtofile/$1(
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[print]

Thanks Sunji. That works!
So it's not necessary to use a "prepend".

iirc, [prepend] is a list function, and so the patch you describe treats your message as a list of symbols. I might be wrong on this, oc.

I was a bit confused. I assumed that [coll] was a list!
Thanks again!

[coll] store a list of things, in a sequence, but it outputs the list as a series of messages. Even if you [dump( out [coll], it outputs each item on it's list as an individual message. But lists are a particular data type in puredata as well. make a

and check it twice, or the help file.

Seems like

and [matrix] are objects that use the [message ( object to store data. The [matrix] object in other programming is used to store large amounts of data in memory and make it quickly accessible. I believe you can't see what's in a [matrix] once the data has been stored in it. I mean maybe you can by looking at the [message ( flag but what happens when you have thousands of bit of info stored or you are creating a matrix on-the-fly?

I have a similar issue. I am trying to establish a dynamic path for recalling presets. So far I have two messages that I would like to combine to form a pathway on my machine but there is a space between the messages when attempting to use [prepend].

I have directory info produced by [getdir] to locate the folder on HD, and then the user specifies what preset is selected.

Any ideas?

[r path] [r file] <- (you can also switch these and use

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| [symbol( <-bang this first
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[list2symbol]

Using an empty symbol in [list2symbol] will remove the spaces between list elements.

Nice move, Maelstom

Hehe, actually a variation of your original suggestion is probably a little simpler. Just use [$1$2( to smash them together.