I have a patch where I have message with a set of numbers, say 059. I want to be able to convert this to a symbol (so I can eventually split it into a list 0 5 9 using symbol2list).

When I use [makesymbol], [ftos] or similar, the leading zero is lost, displaying 59. Is there a way to split a message of floats (with no seperator) into a list including this first zero?

Thanks, Hemmar

Something like the attached, maybe?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/keepleadingzero.mmb.pd