thank you, this simplified and solved the problem... I copied the structure of soundfiler from somewhere and I always written in this way... thank you again!
Cheers,
matteo

Hi every one, i'm programming with puredata for some months and i can't solve a problem about using dollars inside a message... first of all i do apologize for my bad english, i hope you'll understand anyway. i want to create an object for initializing an audio file: inlet -> [open $1( -> [read -resize array1 $1( -> soundfiler ->.... i'm going to initialize a several number of file so i do want ti write instead of array1 an $2 and the having two inlets in the patch: filename and # of initialization. i have found there is a way to use multiple dollar signs inside a message by using pack... but i can't se how exactly.... the final patch i want create is something like inlet1 -> [open $1( -> [read -resize array1 $1( -> soundfiler ->...... And: inlet2 -> [read -resize $1 filename( -> soundfiler -> ....

is there a way using something like:
?

(*"read" instead "rea" in the object box)