Hello forum, simple and annoying question here:

I'm trying to load a file into [soundfiler], but some of my paths contain commas and spaces. I've been able to correctly parse spaces using [list2symbol], but I can't get it to work with commas. Any suggestions?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Auto-glitcher.pd

If you're using [openpanel], you don't need to worry about spaces. Symbols can have spaces in them, and [openpanel] sends out a single symbol that includes those spaces. In fact, when you do the [list $1( in your patch, that $1 gets filled with only one element. If it were getting a list, only the first element of that list would go into $1 and everything after the first space would be lost. So you could just get rid of the space handler and it should work fine.

Commas are reserved characters in Pd, and [openpanel] pulls them out of the path/filename before sending it out. I don't know how to deal with it other than getting rid of the commas to begin with.

Check patch spacefix.pd by Jack/RYBN attached. It should solve the problem, but honestly I don't understand much to it

ales

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

I was also trying to deal with spaces in my project, but at the end I've decided to avoid spaces before loading. Check my spaceavoid.pd patch. It does not load file with spaces (also in path) and displays warning message.

ales

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

Thanks maelstorm!

One of these days I hope to give YOU an answer!