@alexandros Hi, thank you for the tip! Oh, this was that easy- O-o;;

@whale-av I won't investigate more on my case, but I strongly feel like this was my case. It wasn't prepended by 'symbol'. Good to know. This would be useful later. Thanks.

Hello,

I know that this is very old thread but I also reached here yesterday so I think this might be useful to someone like me!

I am using MobMuPlat(=MMP) + Pd and MMP can get user string input and Pd also can receive it.
If I type sth. like -34.123456 then Pd also can get it but in string not as a number!

To convert this back to a proper floating point number, I have managed to implement a working object for my situation.

Hope this help someone else in the future.

tofloat.pd

It is using [list symbol] to get series of numbers first, and detect characters one by one to do needed actions with several variables ([expr]), and then finally spits out integral part & fractional part.

Happy patching!

BTW, this is my first post to the Pd community.
I really love Pure Data.
Thank you for making it & supporting it !

Chao,

Dooho Yi