I'm not seeing this anywhere and it seems so straight forward?

An external perhaps?

Thanks, for your help in advance.

Peace,
Scott

p,s. context I want the names of my effects (which can be quite long) to fit in the space available on my canvas label (without changing the label font-size)...

ex:

"wave-recorder(stampalbum)" and "(unchanged)" both to under 15 characters. So skip truncating unchanged but do truncate the recorder.

(ideally, i would think it would not need list-drip...or does it?)

@svanya is it list split? edit: @ingox solution is the right one, i forgot about the conversion from symbol to list.

@svanya In pd vanilla you can use [list fromsymbol] and [list tosymbol] for that:

stringsplit.zip

Thank you, both so much, @ingox and @Jona. This is exactly what I need.

Thanks, again, both of you.

"There's no 'Just waiting on a friend', quite like waiting on a PD friend."

Saved me an enormous amount of aggravation.

Thanks, again.
-s