frenchie

this forum already helped me a lot in my way to learn how to use Max/MSP. But for quite some time now, I'm stuck in my project and can't find information about my problem. Here it is :

I'm browsing a folder and want to separate .wav sound files and .jpg images, then they will fill different umenu objects.

I've been looking at regexp, but i could only find how to replace and how to extract substrings. What I want is to test if the file's name ends with .wav or .jpg. If it is .wav, the file name will be sent to the sound umenu...

Also, I'd like to see if both files have the same name (for instance, abcd.wav and abcd.jpg). I haven't found out how to get rid of the last few characters in a string and how to compare two strings.

this forum already helped me a lot in my way to learn how to use Max/MSP. But for quite some time now, I'm stuck in my project and can't find information about my problem. Here it is :
I'm browsing a folder and want to separate .wav sound files and .jpg images, then they will fill different umenu objects.

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I'm quite bad with regexp, but you can do your first requirement with one of the examples from the help file:

I'm sure there is a more efficient way of doing it though. Someone else will chime in soon I'm sure.

I'm sure there is a more efficient way of doing it though.  Someone else will chime in soon I'm sure.


Thanks a lot, too bad I haven't seen this help file before. It's very indeed what i was looking for. Still, regexp in Max/MSP don't look really friendly :(

you do not need anything clever here. you just need to point two different umenus to the same folder, one of which you tell it .wav only, the other you tell it .jpeg only. so, "WAVE" for .wav and "JPEG" for.jpg. the codes are all in the "max-fileformats.txt" file. as far as getting rid of endings, sure, a quick recursion shoved through the regexp example or similar into a new umenu would do that.

I looked at max-fileformats.txt and didn't understand it... What do these ligns mean and how to use them ?

sorry, maybe i should post patches if i am gonna commit to interfering:

Thank you so much for what you've done ! Going to check this out

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