<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Strings in p-fields</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="syntax-highlighting.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="ScoreTop.html" title="The Standard Numeric Score" /> <link rel="prev" href="ScoreEval.html" title="Evaluation of Expressions" /> <link rel="next" href="OviewFrontEnds.html" title="Front Ends" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">Strings in p-fields</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ScoreEval.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">The Standard Numeric Score</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="OviewFrontEnds.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="ScoreStrings"></a>Strings in p-fields</h2> </div> </div> </div> <p> You can pass a string as a p-field instead of a number, like this: </p> <pre class="programlisting"> i 1 0 10 "A4" </pre> <p> The string can be received by the instrument and further processed using the <a class="link" href="StringsTop.html" title="Strings"><em class="citetitle">string opcodes</em></a>. </p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <table border="0" summary="Note"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"> <img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.png" /> </td> <th align="left">Note</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p>Currently only one p-field can contain a string (i.e. no more than one string per line is allowed). You can overcome this using <a class="link" href="strset.html" title="strset"><em class="citetitle">strset</em></a> and <a class="link" href="strget.html" title="strget"><em class="citetitle">strget</em></a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ScoreEval.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="ScoreTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="OviewFrontEnds.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Evaluation of Expressions </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Front Ends</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>