tosymbol
Description
tosymbol accepts any message, number, or list, and converts it into a single symbol. The symbol has a maximum length of 2048 characters.
Examples
Convert any input into a symbol
Arguments
None.
Attributes
separator [symbol]
Specifies the separator character or symbol to be used when concatenating. The message separator with no arguments removes all spaces when creating a symbol (e.g., 1 2 3 4 becomes 1234). When used with slash or colon separators, the separator attribute can be used to construct pathnames (e.g., ./patches myjunk myfile becomes ./patches/myjunk/myfile). The default separator is a space.
Common Box Attributes
Messages
bang
See the anything listing
int
Arguments
input
[int]
See the anything listing
float
Arguments
input
[float]
See the anything listing
list
Arguments
input
[list]
See the anything listing
anything
Arguments
input-for-conversion
[list]
The tosymbol object accepts any message, number, or list for an input, and sends a single symbol out its output. The symbol can have a maximum length of 2048 characters.
Output
symbol
A single symbol consisting of the concatenated messages, numbers, or lists. If the output symbol contains any spaces or special characters, it will be surrounded by double quotes.
See Also
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| conformpath | |
| fromsymbol | |
| regexp | |
| zl |