Hi all, I have a very simple (noob) issue which I cannot for the life of me figure out.

As you can see from the screenshot, I have a long list of strings which I can access index wise. This can be successfuly printed to the console. However, I need to use this to set and bang a message. Coming from Max/MSP, I am used to a right inlet where I can set the message, en a delayed bang to bang the respecitve message. I have seen some solutions with prepend set but I can't get this to work.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Any help appreciated, Dan:)

@dmanz have a look at the messages-helpfile.

Commata in messages separate messages,
so

#anything here
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[set open $1, bang( 
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[willbeovewritten(
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[print]

are two successive messages
[set open $1( and [bang(
same as

#anything here
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[t b a]
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|[set open $1(
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[willbeoverwritten (
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[print]

Delaying the bang with [del] breaks the deterministic order of operation!
Usually this is bad practice.
(Althought sometimes required, if you need exact timing or have to mess with other rare non-deterministic operations, such as [readsf~] loading from harddrive (Pd 0.55) f.e.)

As you have mentioned, you can compose messages with lists, too.

#anything here
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[list prepend set]
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[list trim]
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[t b a]
|/
[willbeoverwritten(
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[print]

Data type String is called Symbol in Pd.
You can cut the Symbol and List prefix / selector of a message with [list trim].

@lacuna said:

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[t a b]
|/
[willbeoverwritten(
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[print]

Thank you!

@dmanz sorry, I was wrong in a rush and corrected my last post now:

[t b a] not [t a b]
it is right to left order,
first set the message (anything) then bang.