In Max I was used to put (longish) text containing comma's, spaces, etc. in a message box and send it to the serial port. In Pd the message box splits the message on the comma and strips it off the output.
I have been looking around on how to accomplice this in Pd. Any ideas?

@artelse Ahh! Purr Data might be different, but generally <space> <comma> and <semi-colon> have reserved purposes in Pd... and many other programs too....
David.

@whale-av Actually in Purr Data, the escape character works with Pd 0.48.0. When I do the following it works as I want. Like so, a phoneme definition:

But on save the escape is lost

@artelse Yes, same in Vanilla as I said above..... aarrgh.
Looking at the text file of a patch the \ becomes \ ........ the escape is escaped....
I will post again if I can think of a solution.
David.

@artelse As you already disassemble the text into ASCII code, why not adding the commas manually? Like this:

@ingox Thanks for that solution or workaround! I still will file a bug report as loosing escape characters is clearly incorrect. BTW, just making a copy of a message box with the escape char looses it.

@artelse It is not just Pd.... as you see in my post above the same applies to this forum...
It should read "the backslash becomes backslash backslash ........." and the second is dropped.
More reading to be done on this subject.
David.

@whale-av Ah, but I referred to Purr Data here where the first backslash also gets trashed.

the console prints: "parse-output: [:tuw <300 \, 10>]", i do not know if that helps.

@Jona Another solution that works! Now when Purr Data fixes that discard bug, I seem to be set.