Can't set array of single string into a dict
Hello,
I am banging my head against something that seems rather simple but as I am not familiar with the dict series of objects I can't seem to figure out how to make it work.
I basically want to set an array in a dict as a single text string, rather than a list of strings. Is it possible ? Would someone be kind enough to show me how ? Attached is an example of what i mean
Thanks
Alain
My first thought to convert a string to an array is using [string.toarray], but given your string is already a list and not a single symbol, sending it into a dict.pack makes it an array automatically
Hi TFL,
Thanks for the comment and patch, unfortunately, in the example I send there is a mistake.
I need one sole string in the array, sorry, here is the corrected patch showing what I am looking for,
replace sprintf with message
see the difference
something like this then
Hey thank you TFL, this is exactly what I needed !
I looked into the array object, but did not understand how to make it work. So thanks for that.
Basically all array.* objects convert non-array messages into an array. That array will have N elements if the input message is a list of N items, or 1 element if it's a single symbol, float or int. Then the object will perform the operation it is meant for (.push, .concat, .filter.....)
[array] just stores what arrives into it, so it will makes whatever it receives an array, and send it as is (and keep it in memory until it receives another message)
If you send it an array, that array will remains as is, it won't be wrapped as a sub array. For that, use [array.wrap]
Thanks again for your time TFL for making things clearer. People like you make this forum a great place :).