string bug, I think

[Joseph Sanger]

Hello there,

I have recently started using strings and I think I've found one or two
bugs, many apologies if these have already been noticed or I'm doing
something wrong!

First I noticed that while score lines like these:

        i "snare" 0 1 3
        i 1 0 1 3 "a_string"
        (with the string "a_string" passed to strget in the orc)

both work fine, when I tried this:

        i "snare" 0 1 3 "a_string"
        (with the string "a_string" passed to strget in the orc)

It generated errors and wouldn't play.

So then I went back to using non-named instruments, which worked fine
until I passed more than one string to the orc like this:

        i 1 0 1 "string_1" "string_2" "string_3"

It seems to only recognise the last string. When I debugged using
prints, strget p4, p5, p6 etc. ALL seem to return the last string (in
the example - "string_3").

Attached are two csds which demonstrate this behaviour.

I assume the same bug (if bug it is) is responsible for both issues...

I have tried examples like this on osx (ppc, tiger, csound says it's
v5.07) and Debianppc (csound 5.08 I think - the recent debian package),
using csound from the command line.

I'm right in the middle of working on something for which I would like
to use strings in this way, should I give up for the time being?

Joe

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<CsoundSynthesizer>
; this CSD file was generated with makecsd v1.1
; (written by Istvan Varga, Mar 2003)
<CsOptions>
; set command line options here

</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
        instr 1
Stest strget p4
Stest2 strget p5
        prints Stest
        prints Stest2
        endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i 1 0 1 "Hello, World!" "Hello again, world!"

</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>


<CsoundSynthesizer>
; this CSD file was generated with makecsd v1.1
; (written by Istvan Varga, Mar 2003)
<CsOptions>
; set command line options here

</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
        instr stringtest
Stest strget p4
        prints Stest
        endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i "string" 0 1 "Hello, World!"

</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

[root-77]

One one string is possible in a score line; annoying but the case.
==John ff



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