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How to change on the fly a , (comma) in a list or symbol to a \, (backslash comma)?

This is needed because the following "to symbol" will eat the comma otherwise...

How to change on the fly a , (comma) in a list or symbol to a \, (backslash comma)?
This is needed because the following "to symbol" will eat the comma otherwise...

comma-regexp

How to manipulate a comma past "tosymbol"?

I take a line from "text" that contains one or more comma's.

How to create a single symbol out of that that still contains the commas?

In concreto:
I take a line from "text" that contains one or more comma's.
How to create a single symbol out of that that still contains the commas?

Hey did you ever figure out a solution to this? I'm having the same dilemma.

Not really. I cannot quite remember it precisely. But I was working on a live subtitle system that should cooperate with Qlab. That did function well in the end. But I remember a few workarounds, not a true solution. Don’t have the files here now. I will check it out later. 

Not really. I cannot quite remember it precisely. But I was working on a live subtitle system that should cooperate with Qlab. That did function well in the end. But I remember a few workarounds, not a true solution. Don’t have the files here now. I will check it out later. 
Peter

Thanks for the reply! I think I've found a pretty good workaround using js and the File object. It's got a readlines method which if just sent through an outlet outputs the whole line as a symbol, commas and all. No need for that pesky text object or tosymbol.

comma regexp? \'