Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:24:16 -0500

Guy Jennings wrote:
> 
> We ran into a problem while trying to use a string field
> in a record to hold a "printf" format string to control the
> characters sent to a serial device.
> 
> We wanted to be able to put octal escaped characters into
> the field value, along the lines:
> 
> FIELD(SEL, "\23%2.2d\n")
> 
> However, when the database attempts to load, we get a syntax
> error message from dbLoadRecords.
> 
> It seems that the parser in dbLoadRecords does not expand
> escape sequences within quoted strings.  Can anyone think
> of a way around this limitation?

Thanks to Noboru Yamamoto from KEK the beta11 release
of 3.13 supports escape sequences. The beta11 version
of the Application Developer's guide gives details.
see page 27 (Chapter Database Definition, Section general Rules).

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System