Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Rarback, Harvey" <[email protected]> · Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:03:07 -0800

	Andrew,

 > We do at SPEAR.  Tony Cox wrote a CA server that runs on 
> VMS and serves
> > our ancient control system software constructs with names like
> > spr:zb/xx7(25).VAL.
> 
> Ok, thanks for responding.  Your example contains non-alphanumeric
> characters ':/' to the left of the first parenthesis.  Will 
> that pattern
> be true for all such channel names?

Yes.  There should always be a "/" preceding the parentheses.

> My original proposal restricted link type names to 
> alphanumerics only, so
> I can easily use the presence of a non-al/num character 
> before the open
> parenthesis to flag that this must be an old-style PV name.

Thanks.  That sounds like it will work for our CAS.

                                  --Harvey 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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