kveldssanger

I am trying to make a patch that will analyse a text document with a poem in it, then associate each letter with a number, then output that number consecutively. I am trying to do this with a coll by setting:

But I cant get it so the index is read as a symbol not a number. Is there a way to accomplish this? Or is there another object that would work better?

Hello,
I am trying to make a patch that will analyse a text document with a poem in it, then associate each letter with a number, then output that number consecutively. I am trying to do this with a coll by setting:
a,0;
b,1;
c,3;
etc..
But I cant get it so the index is read as a symbol not a number. Is there a way to accomplish this? Or is there another object that would work better?


associate-symbol-with-index-in-coll

to store data with a symbol as its index, use the message 'store' ie, the message:

to access the data you need to prepend the index with 'symbol', ie:

btw all of this is explicitly stated in the coll help file, with functioning examples

to store data with a symbol as its index, use the message 'store' ie, the message:
store cars 17
will create a listing:

to access the data you need to prepend the index with 'symbol', ie:
symbol cars
will return:
17

btw all of this is explicitly stated in the coll help file, with functioning examples


Sorry I must have missed that part in the help file but thank you, I am quite new to this.

I have edited my coll to include that but it will still not analyze my writing in the text object. When I hit the trigger I need it to go though the text document, letter for letter, then run those letters through the coll to assign a number to each letter then output that number in order.

I really appreciate any help you can offer! Thank you very much!

Sorry I must have missed that part in the help file but thank you, I am quite new to this.
I have edited my coll to include that but it will still not analyze my writing in the text object. When I hit the trigger I need it to go though the text document, letter for letter, then run those letters through the coll to assign a number to each letter then output that number in order.
I really appreciate any help you can offer! Thank you very much!


sorry I don't really understand what you are trying to do-- what sort of analysis are you trying to do?

sorry  I don't really understand what you are trying to do-- what sort of analysis are you trying to do?


Im trying to turn text/letters into number values so that I can then use those values to drive an arpeggiator. My goal here is to make a musical representation of a poem by linking letters to midi note values. I apologize if I am making this difficult for you to understand :( Maybe I am going at in all in the wrong way?

It sounds like you're trying to turn words into strings of numbers? If so, you need to break the words into separate letters - when Max sees a string of letters together it treats it as a single symbol, not a string of individual letters. You'll need to explicitly break the words into letters to do what I think you are trying to do. Have a look at [fromsymbol] and other related objects.

here's one starting point (no coll, sel instead):

So I ended up setting it up with an atoi which changes the letters to ASCII numbers then running that through an iter so that I can receive the numbers consecutively. Its basically what I want to do, only problem is I am receiving the note numbers all at once and I only really hear the last note. How would I get it to send out the individual messages over time, like one message per second or something? I have tried speedlim and a few others but I cant seem to get it to work. Suggestions?

well if you look (more) carefully at the example I provided yesterday you'll see I've already done that for you (using zl slice and reg)...

Thank you for the help everyone! It was greatly appreciated!

Associate symbol with index in coll