David Beaudry

This seems so easy...yet I've been scratching my head over this problem all day. Maybe others here have some suggestions before I scratch myself bald.

Let's say I have a big long message like so:

hippo lion 4 ant 2.3 tiger 0.3 rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5

I want to take the big list and break it up into 3 chunks:

...based on the appearance of in the list. I can't use unpack or iter since I don't know for certain the length or type of values that will follow . In other 3rd party options I've been able to find, seems like you need to know the length of the message you want to generate (e.g. slicelist), or parses in a way that won't really work for this application (e.g. Lchunk). Any suggestions on how to tackle this?

Hi all,
This seems so easy...yet I've been scratching my head over this problem all day. Maybe others here have some suggestions before I scratch myself bald.

 hippo lion 4 ant 2.3  tiger 0.3  rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5

I want to take the big list and break it up into 3 chunks:
 hippo lion 4 ant 2.3 
 tiger 0.3 
 rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5

...based on the appearance of  in the list. I can't use unpack or iter since I don't know for certain the length or type of values that will follow . In other 3rd party options I've been able to find, seems like you need to know the length of the message you want to generate (e.g. slicelist), or parses in a way that won't really work for this application (e.g. Lchunk). Any suggestions on how to tackle this?

slicing-a-big-list-into-smaller-lists-based-on-a-search-string

On 20 Feb 2007, at 03:49, David Beaudry wrote:

> This seems so easy...yet I've been scratching my head over this 

> problem all day. Maybe others here have some suggestions before I 

>
> Hi all,
> This seems so easy...yet I've been scratching my head over this  
> problem all day. Maybe others here have some suggestions before I  
> scratch myself bald.

> Let's say I have a big long message like so:

> I want to take the big list and break it up into 3 chunks:

> ...based on the appearance of in the list. I can't use 

> unpack or iter since I don't know for certain the length or type of 

> values that will follow . In other 3rd party options I've 

> been able to find, seems like you need to know the length of the 

> message you want to generate (e.g. slicelist), or parses in a way 

> that won't really work for this application (e.g. Lchunk). Any 

seems a little awkward to do in max, although you could 'force' 

Lchunk to work for your situation (see patch below).

but if you really need this output format, i would probably pull out 

a simple javascript function could look like this (hopefully the code 

    var a = arrayfromargs(arguments);

On 20 Feb 2007, at 03:49, David Beaudry wrote:
>
> Let's say I have a big long message like so:
>
>  hippo lion 4 ant 2.3  tiger 0.3   
> rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5
>
> I want to take the big list and break it up into 3 chunks:
>  hippo lion 4 ant 2.3
>  tiger 0.3
>  rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5
>
> ...based on the appearance of  in the list. I can't use  
> unpack or iter since I don't know for certain the length or type of  
> values that will follow . In other 3rd party options I've  
> been able to find, seems like you need to know the length of the  
> message you want to generate (e.g. slicelist), or parses in a way  
> that won't really work for this application (e.g. Lchunk). Any  
> suggestions on how to tackle this?

hi david,
seems a little awkward to do in max, although you could 'force'  
Lchunk to work for your situation (see patch below).
but if you really need this output format, i would probably pull out  
some text-based solution.
a simple javascript function could look like this (hopefully the code  
turns up correctly):

function parse() {
	var a = arrayfromargs(arguments);
	var b = new Array();
	for(i=0; i
		if( a[i] == keyword ) {
			outlet(0, b);
			b = new Array();
			b.push(keyword);
		}
		else
			b.push(a[i]);
	}
	outlet(0, b);
}

I figured the best method was going to lead me to java/javascript...much thanks for the script, Volker!

Hi all,
Thanks for your responses!
I figured the best method was going to lead me to java/javascript...much thanks for the script, Volker!

slicing a big list into smaller lists based on a search string