Hi all,

I need to send incoming symbols to specific outlets based on the first couple of letters of each symbol.

For example, something like this:

[AABFYD( [BBGFYD( [CCAFYD(
|________ /_________/
[route AA$1 BB$1 CC$1]
| | | |

But [route] doesn't seem to like dollarsigns in this way. Is there another object that will do this sort of routing?

Thanks!

you could use a workaround with extended, using [moocow/any2bytes] see attached.

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

Hey Johnny, thanks very much for your reply. The idea of using any2bytes is very helpful I think. I should've been more clear in my initial post I just realised - the first two letters aren't always repeated (BB, CC etc), and the letters may come up later in the string so any solution can't just be looking for all matches, just the first two symbols. Any ideas?

you can use makefilename; it has a "precision" field. see attached.
what do you mean the first two letters aren't repeated? should the expression be A$1 then?

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

Ah, sorry yes I mean that sometimes the two first letters are BT, SK etc., not just pairs of the same letter. On first glance this does look very promising though sebfu, thanks! I'll try it out first thing tomorrow.

I also like yours sebfumaster! As far as i understand, both solutions work and are flexible about which letters are in the front. I you want to filter out letters later in the massage/stream/list, may i also introduce you to [drip]. It can serialize a pulk of data to make a stream and you can process each atom/byte/symbol on its own.
I hope i*m not unprecise/wrong with my wording...

Thanks Sebfu, that's worked a treat - and thanks again for your help Johnny!