Select by String

vvvv beta question
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I have labeled a bunch of midi inputs, (I can’t use todo as it doesn’t work with my akai amx1 due to the way the midi encoders seem to output).

I have a list of what each dials named, in the order that the spread of values come out of the AMX. I want to chose from those by using the name of the dial rather then by the number of the dial.

I am using sift at the moment, with Matches Any, but what I actually want is a kind of getslice, but using a name instead of a slice number. I want the slices to come out in the order of the list.

Does that make sense?

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Spoke too soon, still doesn’t work right… Will post a patch.

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Here is an example patch, you can see on the right is what I would like the spread output to be, in the order which I have the string values in the string spread. Sift is getting the values as they occur in the input spread.

select by string.v4p (13.0 kB)

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you did it almost right using Sift(String). the trick is to switch input and filter - then it does what you want it to do.

select by string_using sift.v4p (15.3 kB)