Thanks, Steven; this was very helpful and solved my problem.

I constantly find it difficult in the Csound manual to find an opcode that 
does what I need. For example, I hadn't known (or had forgotten) that the 
print series of opcodes can turn a number into a string. (A search for 
"convert number to string" doesn't turn up sprintf.)

I haven't found a dependable way to search the manual for this kind of 
information. In most cases, there are opcode solutions - just no easy way to 
find them. (And who'd think to look under "s" for a print-type function 
anyway.) Once again this list comes to the rescue.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Yi" 
To: "Csound" 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Passing diskin a filename?


> Hi Art,
>
> You could maybe use strset/strget to convert from an string to an index:
>
> http://csounds.com/manual/html/strset.html
> http://csounds.com/manual/html/strget.html
>
> to format a number into a string as you mentioned, you can use:
>
> http://csounds.com/manual/html/sprintf.html
>
> and use a format string of "%d.wav".
>
> steven
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
>> I need the event opcode to pass a filename to diskin in the called
>> instrument.
>>
>> The filename is "1.wav".
>>
>> The problem? Event (or schedkwhen for that matter) does not take a string 
>> as
>> an argument.
>>
>> Also, if I simply pass the numeric variable "1", I see no way of 
>> converting
>> that to the string "1.wav". What am I missing?
>>
>> (I would like to pass filenames "1.wav" through maybe "10.wav" to the 
>> same
>> called instrument, BTW.)
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>>
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