Julien Vincenot

I had a little question a few weeks ago about how to format properly my shell messages to the aka.shell.

I needed only to add some quotes around any path necessary.

Now I want to generate these paths according to the Mac where the patch is loaded. I assume that both Max Runtime and the patch I want to load are not in identical places on every machines...

In this way, aka.shell can load the patch I want, in Runtime, without having to redefine the path each time.

Only problem : absolutepath gives, for any file, a path containing also the name of the Mac HD and a colon. The message i would send to aka.shell looks like this :

set open -a "'PowerLook:/Applications/Max5/MaxMSP Runtime.app'" 'PowerLook:/Users/jv/Desktop/master-folder/*tool-box.maxpat'

aka.shell seems not to understand this messages, but this other one works immediately :

set open -a "'/Applications/Max5/MaxMSP Runtime.app'" '/Users/jv/Desktop/master-folder/*tool-box.maxpat'

Does anybody think about a way to remove it automatically ? 

I was thinking about sprintf but the syntax is still hard for me...

I had a little question a few weeks ago about how to format properly my shell messages to the aka.shell.
I needed only to add some quotes around any path necessary.

Now I want to generate these paths according to the Mac where the patch is loaded. I assume that both Max Runtime and the patch I want to load are not in identical places on every machines...
In this way, aka.shell can load the patch I want, in Runtime, without having to redefine the path each time. 

Only problem : absolutepath gives, for any file, a path containing also the name of the Mac HD and a colon. The message i would send to aka.shell looks like this : 

Does anybody think about a way to remove it automatically ? 
I was thinking about sprintf but the syntax is still hard for me...

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Try the regexp object. The patch below should do what you want.

It works almost perfectly (still a little problem with aka.shell)

Thanks very mych for you help.
It works almost perfectly (still a little problem with aka.shell)
but regexp is perfect for what i needed.

You need to use the second outlet of [regexp] which shows the backreferences, rather than the first outlet which shows substitutions.

I found my mistake actually, thanks very much.

Problem between absolutepath and aka.shell