misho

Dear Max friends, reaching out for a little bit of help -

I'm putting together a patch to parse out lines of dialog from a text file. The data in the text file is formatted as follows:

I'd like to format the data into a [coll] so that each line is also assigned a sequential number per actor. Using the above example:

The caveat is that the number of actors and names are unknown, so the data cannot be explicitly routed via [route] and occurrences accumulated via a [counter] ... Any suggestions on how to append an _xxx.wav following the actor's name? I imagine this involve a magical mixture of [coll], [zl] and [regexp]? Thank you kindly for you advice!

Dear Max friends, reaching out for a little bit of help - 

I'm putting together a patch to parse out lines of dialog from a text file.  The data in the text file is formatted as follows:

john: blah blah blah
bob: blah blah
john: blah blah blah
fred: blah
john: blah
....

I'd like to format the data into a [coll] so that each line is also assigned a sequential number per actor.  Using the above example:

john_001.wav, blah blah blah
bob_001.wav, blah blah
john_002.wav, blah blah blah
fred_001.wav, blah
john 003.wav, blah
...

The caveat is that the number of actors and names are unknown, so the data cannot be explicitly routed via [route] and occurrences accumulated via a [counter] ... Any suggestions on how to append an _xxx.wav following the actor's name?  I imagine this involve a magical mixture of [coll], [zl] and [regexp]?  Thank you kindly for you advice!


help-with-formatting-coll-data

For appending '_xxx.wav' you can use the [combine] object.

Nicolas and broc, thank you both for your replies! Nicolas' solution works a treat, thanks again!

Nicolas and broc, thank you both for your replies!  Nicolas' solution works a treat, thanks again!


Help with formatting coll data?