I'm looking for a way to create a unique filename to record to when I press a button. I was thinking about using the [date] and

Try using [l2s] and possibly [makefilename]

I've attached an example for creating unique .wav filenames based on date and time

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/unique_filename.pd

Many thanks pd123. This is a very useful patch indeed, exactly what i needed.
What a great forum this is

D.

No problem, I'll be using it too.

I created an abstraction with creation arg for file extension and made it unique to the ms (rather than second as above). It's called bb_uname and is available at http://bitsynthesis.com/pd

Of course, you can probably make those changes yourself in 15 seconds or so.

maybe you'll like my little filewriter?
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-3816-filewriter

its output looks like this: default_path/Argument$1_2010.5.1_21-0-40
easy to add channels or make a mono version

pd123:
your patch only opens every 5th time
every other time pd opens but wont react and open the patch and closes silently after a few seconds
windos here