@whale-av all of your examples with iem_pbank_scv will load in the first half of the symbol "variablename1" but when it gets to the space it cuts off the floating point i need, "4.0"

@rjpg i've been trying to use qlist to read in floating points from a .txt file. The txt file looks like this:
variablename1 4.0;
variablename2 3.2;
variablename3 659.0;
etc.....

in order to read in any of these values, qlist requires me to make an object like [r variablename1] and output the value 4.0 from there

which works, for this one abstraction, but if i wish to use multiples of the same abstraction in the same patch, the [r variablename1] objects need to be localized.
My initial thought was, write "$0-variablename1 4.0;" to the .txt file instead of "variablename1 4.0;" however, a [r $0-variablename1] object just flat out don't work.

So my other thoughts were

1. is there a way to just load in as a symbol "variablename1"?
   which appears to require slist and iem_pb but seems unnecessarily complicated
   or
2. can i create an [r symbol] like instance that will allow me to import from qlist the number 4.0 if i pass it the symbol "variablename1"?

whatimtalkinbout.pd

perhaps this will show you EXACTLY what i would like to do? could you possibly edit this patch so it works?

sorry but i'm still not clear as to how you could use a symbol as the name of a send and receive line. how can you create an object like [s NAME] where NAME is a symbol you generate on the fly?

nice! i thought about that idea too for a bit, the concept of pure data metaprogramming. i believe you could also do such a thing by creating the .pd file with c++ possibly? or perl? possibly? from there, the .pd file created could communicate back to the creating perl or c++ file with a .txt file of data... an idea i had, feel free to explore it OBV........ though this has probably been done before?

i'll check it out. Thank you!

cool, it's pulling in most of the data but for some reason the ends of the lines are getting cut off. For example "pieceofdata 1;" loses the "1" and the ";" any idea as to why that might be?

I didn't want to have to explain the full extent of my problem for fear of confusion, but here goes: basically I'm writing a text file with a name and data that is procedurally generated by symbols and floats. This way I can create duplicate files to read multiple pieces of information into multiple copies of the same abstraction without having to manually rewrite the name for each one ("piece of data 1" piece of data 2" etc)
Now to read that data back, I need to use a read function that will use the same names procedurally generated as the data input readouts, but, using [qlist] (as well as [slist]) requires a s "name" and r "name".
You can't generate send and receive names from a symbol.
Or can you?

i hope that made any sense, thanks for sticking with me!

@whale-av wow! thanks for the effort! Is there anyway to do this without slist, though?

sorry for being suck a picky pain in the ass... I just can't use slist in this scenario

I can't get pbank to load from a .txt file, and to make matters stranger, I've searched my puredata folder and I can't even find this file [read iem_pbank.pbank br] that the example help file supposedly accesses...

i'm checking it out now. Are you sure [slist] is a real object and not a typo? i can't find any documentation for it anywhere, haha.

Is there a way to get [qlist] to import information off a text file as a list of symbols and floating points? The only way given in any of the examples has been using the print object (which displays the information, but won't let me compute with it?) or using the receive object [r] and I can't use that in this instance.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[list2symbol] worked perfectly! thank you!

ugh.... this forum's formatting is atrocious, which isn't helpful when you're discussing a VISUAL programming language, hahah

Is there any way to send a blank space in a message box? I need to create a symbol that looks like "word 24" using mergefile to combine a symbol, "word " and a float "24" but i need the symbol to include a space at the end of it.
Any ideas?

I'm aware that pd can receive OSC signals from udp, but can it receive signals from serial as well? I have an arduino device (teensy 3.1) sending OSC messages over usb, comport 10, 9600, but I can't for the life of me figure out a way to use either the mrpeach or the oscx library to detect the messages sent. If anyone could provide any useful information at all that would be great, I've had this problem for a number of weeks now and it's rather frustrating

that worked wonderful, thank you!

I'm trying to draw a waveform to an array using the fourier synthesis
[;ARRAYNAME sinesum ( message box, then normalize it, and then send the normalized array to another array. What would be the best way to transfer a normalized array to another array in pure data?

thanks in advance!

Long story short, and I thought I tested to make sure this didn't happen, but long story short I created a loop with a [loadbang] object inside a subpatch that renders me unable to open my .pd file in pure data. I have opened the same .pd file in notepad. Does anyone know how i can delete the subpatch holding the loadbang loop from inside notepad?

Is there anything that cannot be routed through a subpatch? I've been told that osc~ and phasor~ objects do not work properly inside a subpatch, but so far all that I've tested have worked fine. I remember encountering strange errors before, though, but I can't remember what they were... Is there any documentation for what can and cannot be used inside a subpatch without errors?

I'm using 0.43.4 extended on windows 7, btw

I seem to be running into a problem with subpatches. Occasionally, when I click on one to open it, it doesn't display. Anyone else run into this problem?

I'm on windows 7