I'm having trouble normalizing tables that are located within my subpatches.

|; /
|$0-table normalize |
| \

doesn't work because message boxes read dollarsign variables differently...

[normalize(
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doesn't seem to work either, though I get no error message in the pd window.

any help at all would be amazing. thanks.

Don't forget to give the parameters for the normalize message:

[normalize -1 1(
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edit: nevermind. That must have been the issue, it's working fine now. Thank you so much.

If you need to use a patch variable in a message you should do this way

[f $0]
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|; /
|$1-table normalize -1 1 |
| \

But using an object is more elegant in most situations.