Hi guys,
it's been a while since I've done any PD patching. Now I'm collaborating in designing some mobile apps and libpd is a fantastic resource. So, I'm back to pure PD patching (vanilla). Ah, so much fun with bare bones!

Anyway, I'm trying to format strings with makefilename and I must be doing something very wrong... I don't know if makefilename is supposed to take lists or not, but this doesn't work:

18 42
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[makefilename table-%d-%d]

I thought that maybe it could only take one number argument, so I tried:
18
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[makefilename table-%d]
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[pack s f] -----43
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[makefilename %s-%d]

In both cases the second argument gets weird values, as if it was an undefined signed float.
Any ideas how to surpass this? Remember, only vanilla ice cream here...

Cheers!
Ivan

Hum... this is a new one and a sign I've been away for a while. I just realized that we can now have messages with arguments without spaces between them:

[$1-$2]

I think this was impossible in previous versions, and should make makefilename pretty much obsolete, right?

I don't know if this could be helpful but check this out.

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-9389-vl2s-list2symbol-vanilla