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Help with formatting coll data?

misho — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:47:20 +0000

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!

Re: Help with formatting coll data?

broc — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:31:01 +0000

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

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Re: Help with formatting coll data?

nicolas danet — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:52:59 +0000

Hi,

HTH

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Re: Help with formatting coll data?

misho — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:44:55 +0000

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