Javascript access to "---"

[Surreal]

How do i figure out the patchers --- number in a js file?

[emmanuel_2]

How do i figure out the patchers --- number in a js file?

The easiest way is to put something as argument to your js object, like "js yourawesomejsfile.js ---randomstuff". Then in your global code you can access to the argument of your js object (using jsarguments[1]) and then parse that string to get the number before randomstuff.

[Surreal]

that ... didn't (seem to) work...but now that i think about it again, i think i know why.

when i open a patch in edit mode, that number is not generated.

thank you.

[emmanuel_2]

that ... didn't (seem to) work...but now that i think about it again, i think i know why.

when i open a patch in edit mode, that number is not generated.

Yeah that must be it. Doing something like that seems to work fine:

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var id;

function findId()
{
    var str = jsarguments[1];

    id = str.replace(/(.+)randomtext/, "$1");
    post(id);
}

findId();