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Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:21 am**

This is probably a bit of a newbie question here but how do you concatenate a message string so that the whole thing passes as a variable? For example in the patch here "Pan" and "id" are passed when clicking the message boxes; but I'd like "Pan A" and "id 20" to be the variable.

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Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:02 am**

I found "tosymbol" which gets me most of the way there. The 'live.object' however is still not created using the whole symbol.

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Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:26 pm**

or just put the " " inside the message boxes.

Also look at [join] which makes lists out of anything.
and [sprintf] that let you format messages using variables.

Posted: **Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:28 pm**

May I ask what your goal is ?

Posted: **Sat May 01, 2021 1:09 pm**

Thanks Chapelier

The message boxes are being generated on the fly. Sprintf is a good solution.

Thanks for the pointers. Half the battle at the beginning is knowing what objects are available to you.

Posted: **Sat May 01, 2021 3:34 pm**

Help files and their “see also” sections are the real MaxMSP manual, it’s good practice to always go check them.

Posted: **Sun May 02, 2021 8:43 am**

Indeed. As a developer I am used to picking through API documentation. I didn't actually know there was a Max/MSP manual; I just went straight for the help files for each object. Pleased to see they are so well documented. So far my experience with Max/MSP has been really good.

Posted: **Sun May 02, 2021 11:27 am**

There is no manual indeed.

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