Jacob

I'm having a little trouble figuring the best way to extract and parse data from a dict that has a few sub dicts.

In the little example patch the dict extraction on the left seems to work fine (though there might be a more efficient way to do this). However the one on the right doesn't work.

It might have something to do with how the sub dictionaries are formatted in that dict. It has the first level dict keys assigned as numbers, which might be the issue (the working one has keys as symbols/words). However, this is how data I'm using comes into the dict from a sensor, so i can't change it without a lot of dict conversion i don't want to do.

Dict Extract Test.maxpat

Hello!

I'm having a little trouble figuring the best way to extract and parse data from a dict that has a few sub dicts.

In the little example patch the dict extraction on the left seems to work fine (though there might be a more efficient way to do this). However the one on the right doesn't work.

Hello!

I'm having a little trouble figuring the best way to extract and parse data from a dict that has a few sub dicts.

In the little ... 

dict-extract-data-help-pls

You should write 1 & 2 as symbols as you do in the dict key. So... in the route object put "1" "2"

...Is the issue a syntax one in the route object's arguments? 

It doesn't need quotes in the first, working example (with arguments 

Thanks Marker, that works!
...Is the issue a syntax one in the route object's arguments? 
It doesn't need quotes in the first, working example (with arguments coordinates-A, coordinates-C,  not "coordinates-A", "coordinates-C")
Thanks again!
Jacob


In the case on the left they don't need quotes because they are symbols by virtue of starting with letters. In the absence of quotes, a single number argument will be interpreted as an integer, and thus not match the symbol of the same thing.

You can also tell Max treats "coordinates-C" the same as the unquoted one because if you put it in a message box Max will automatically remove the quotes (unless it has a space).

FWIW I learned recently that [dict] objects actually can take integers -- plain 1 2 3 4 etc -- as keys instead of "1" "2" "3" "4". But they are not interchangeable.

In the case on the left they don't need quotes because they are symbols by virtue of starting with letters.  In the absence of quotes, a single number argument will be interpreted as an integer, and thus not match the symbol of the same thing.

FWIW I learned recently that [dict] objects actually can take integers -- plain 1 2 3 4 etc -- as keys instead of "1" "2" "3" "4".  But they are not interchangeable.

dict extract data (help pls)