I have a loop that makes a recording during each pass.
At the moment the files are named sound%d.wav, where %d is the counter value.

Now, I want to get more logical filenames based on two parameters. One to dermine a preset and the second, based on the counter value ,to determine the second part of the filename. The problem is the second part not having an equal length for each preset.

For Example:

when preset/first part is set to:
* A1 the second part will be: X1, X3, X4 (counter 1->3)
* B1 the second part will be: Y6, Y-4, Y-1, Y3 (couter 1->4)
* C1 the second part will be: Z4, Z-3 (counter 1->2)

In other words (as I think I the above is not really clear):
I want to do some conditional (?) selection

when preset is A1 and counter 1 -> A1X3.wav
A1 and counter 2 -> A1X3.wav
etc
C1 and counter 1 -> C1Z4.wav
C1 and conter 2 -> C1Z-3.wav

.. but how?

edit: Only need to run the loop for one (a priori chosen) preset !

check out [list2symbol] from zexy for combining 2 messages into one.

@hardoff said:

check out [list2symbol] from zexy for combining 2 messages into one.

I think [pack] will do the same.

However -current- main problem is the selection process. Obivious I can make one big [select] with 144 arg's, but with 5 different presets and two different 'lists' for the second part (one of 36 values and one of 18) I think there is a better way.

ah, yeah soryy, i kinda guessed that i didn't really answer your question.

i think the key is probably in this part of your last post: 'lists'

have a look at the list-abs library of list abstractions. you can definitely do what you want with that. stuff like [list_seek] etc might be handy.

ehm, I guess I don't have that library?

I only see/have

, , , (still new to PD)

they're a part of the pd-extended distribution.