Max's expr and sprintf externals are essential tools because of their extreme generality. expr allows the construction of almost any mathematical expression, and sprintf provides the full generality of C's sprintf() procedure for formatting text strings.

Unfortunately, both of these tools are hampered in critical and confusing ways by the way Max itself deals with text.

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