jaredmadere@mac.com

Hello, I would like to make a patch that shifts every letter in the words in a text field over one letter and spits them out into another text field shifted. For example, Cat in the Hat would become DBU jo uif Ibu. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I would go about constructing this in max?

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On 11 sept. 07, at 22:11, Jared Madere wrote:

> Hello, I would like to make a patch that shifts every letter in the 

> words in a text field over one letter and spits them out into 

> another text field shifted. For example, Cat in the Hat would 

> become DBU jo uif Ibu. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how 

> I would go about constructing this in max?

It's pretty easy to achieve with atoi/itoa which gives you a numeric 

representation of the ASCII letters. You probably gonna have to make 

>
> Hello, I would like to make a patch that shifts every letter in the  
> words in a text field over one letter and spits them out into  
> another text field shifted. For example, Cat in the Hat would  
> become DBU jo uif Ibu. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how  
> I would go about constructing this in max?

It's pretty easy to achieve with atoi/itoa which gives you a numeric  
representation of the ASCII letters. You probably gonna have to make  
something wrapping though.

that works great, thank you so much. the only problem is that certain characters such as quotation marks and commas do not even get registered. I would like to be able to put an entire essay into the patch and have it shift every letter and number in it one character up. does anybody know how to go about making max recognize " and , as symbols and not simply ignoring them?

Quote: jaredmadere@mac.com wrote on Tue, 11 September 2007 16:55

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> tthe only problem is that certain characters such as quotation marks and commas do not even get registered. ... does anybody know how to go about making max recognize " and , as symbols and not simply ignoring them?

Try putting a backslash before special characters, so type " and , instead of " and ,

If the letter shifting turns a character into a quote or comma, you may still have problems. I don't know if that will be the case, but if it is you should be able to special case it to do the right thing before the itoa object.

Quote: jaredmadere@mac.com wrote on Tue, 11 September 2007 16:55
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> tthe only problem is that certain characters such as quotation marks and commas do not even get registered. ... does anybody know how to go about making max recognize " and , as symbols and not simply ignoring them?
>

why is it that text entered into this version of the patch, only seems to have part of it translated? try pasting any text document longer than a few paragraphs in and see what i mean.

On 12 Sep 2007, at 01:55, Jared Madere wrote:

> that works great, thank you so much. the only problem is that 

> certain characters such as quotation marks and commas do not even 

> get registered. I would like to be able to put an entire essay into 

> the patch and have it shift every letter and number in it one 

> character up. does anybody know how to go about making max 

> recognize " and , as symbols and not simply ignoring them?

first of all, if you want to filter " and , you should put in the 

corresponding ascii numbers, i.e. 34 and 44.

but it's true, since these characters have special meanings in max, 

it's a little cumbersome to deal with them.

therefore i would suggest using javascript for this task - at least 

here is a little script that reads a text file (use raw text and not 

some word docs etc.) and feeds single lines back to max.

send it the message [readfile my_file] to read in a text, and 

you can bypass the [textedit] object. but [itoa] e.g. can only handle 

256 elements. that won't give you very long sentences...

in the end i think it's easier to do the whole thing in js.

            lines[line] = f.readline();                            

            line++;                // increment line count

        post(">>> could not open file: " + s + "n");

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> that works great, thank you so much. the only problem is that  
> certain characters such as quotation marks and commas do not even  
> get registered. I would like to be able to put an entire essay into  
> the patch and have it shift every letter and number in it one  
> character up. does anybody know how to go about making max  
> recognize " and , as symbols and not simply ignoring them?

first of all, if you want to filter " and , you should put in the  
corresponding ascii numbers, i.e. 34 and 44.
but it's true, since these characters have special meanings in max,  
it's a little cumbersome to deal with them.
therefore i would suggest using javascript for this task - at least  
for the text file reading.
here is a little script that reads a text file (use raw text and not  
some word docs etc.) and feeds single lines back to max.
send it the message [readfile my_file] to read in a text, and  
[get_line x] to access it.
you can bypass the [textedit] object. but [itoa] e.g. can only handle  
256 elements. that won't give you very long sentences...
in the end i think it's easier to do the whole thing in js.
vb

function readfile(s) {
	lines = new Array();
	var f = new File(s);
	var c, line;

	if (f.isopen) {
		c = f.eof;
		line=0;		
		while(f.position
			lines[line] = f.readline();							
			line++;				// increment line count
		}
		outlet(1, line);
		f.close();
	}
	else {
		post(">>> could not open file: " + s + "n");
	}
}

function get_line( i ) {
	outlet(0, lines[i]);
}


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