Is it possible to access the argument of an object inside the object? For example I make the object:

|pd test arg-1|

and inside the pd test-1 object I want to access the arg-1 argument in order to pass it to a message. I tried this:

|bang|
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|$1|
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|print|

but I get 0 from this. Any ideas?

Subpatches don't take arguments. You have to use abstractions for this.