Hello everyone, i guess the title gives it away
im trying to have a [next $1( inside of a dynamically created subpatch. I'm sending a float to ajust another parameter, so the solution i found for now is this one :

Is there a more elegant way to do so ? also, whenever i close and re-open the patch, there is a backslach between the two dollar signs.

cheers

@PLDS nevermind, found by myself
turns out the backslash indicates a symbol, if i'm not mistaken ?

@PLDS "\" is an escape character....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character
Older versions of Pd didn't display them and they could not be typed.
(This forum behaves in a similar manner..... I had to escape the backslash above to make it display)

It says.... what follows... $1 in the message shown in the screenshot below... is a literal string rather than a variable or a special character.

But since some version of Pd (about 0.51) they can be typed, so you can do this......

Which is slightly more elegant... but also much easier......
David.