Hi, I'm developing an iOS app using libpd, so I should only use vanilla objects due to a license issue.

So I tried to imitate zexy's [list2symbol] with vanilla objects today, and I could similarly get it working.

My abstraction takes a list and replaces space between items in a list with 'hyphen(-)' to change the list to a symbol.

e.g) a list "a b c 1 2 3" changes to a symbol "a-b-c-1-2-3"

a list should consist of maximum 6 items(5 spaces), and the rest will be ignored.

And if it takes a single float from it's inlet, the result remains the same.

e.g) a single float "123" will remain a float "123"

I hope someone will find this useful.

Zack

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/vl2s.zip

Hi,
thank you for sharing! Do you happen to know how to imitate symbol2list?
Or maybe you can tell me your procedure of imitating a particular external object?

i've made a vanilla symbol2list, it's in the library at my github (below in signature), called pds2l
the tricky part is getting individual characters but as Jonothan Wilkes Showed on the mailing list it can be done with makefilename, testing every next possible character in the string with a "precision" set by makefilename.

Wow! meanwhile I found a different solution but I will check it out your library as I'm pretty sure to find a lot of goodies there