When inputting a semicolon in [entry] it outputs this "///;"

I would like to turn that "///;" into a simple ";" at some point in the patch.

I am using [entry] for a sort of chat that sends text to a [msgfile]

I cannot control users inputting semicolons or not, and, within the [msgfile] txt file, I would need semicolons to be only semicolons.

I understand that semicolons are reserved characters in PD, and that this may not be easy to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

hi again, for me i just tried it a few different ways (makefilename, bytes2any, s2l) and it ended up crashing pd. Aren't you running a script afterwards anyway? why not use sed or something? like 'sed s/\\\\;/;/g' (untested, not sure how many backslashes to put where)

edit: you can use this to find them and maybe replace them with something else

is what you're doing implementing a chat thang? why do you need the textfile to contain semicolons?

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