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Hi Michael,

You could use the "genSub" record instead of the "sub"?

Please see:

http://www.observatorysciences.co.uk/client/epics.asp

for download of code, documentation and example database.

Cheers,

Andy


On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Laznovsky, Michael wrote:

> Hi- how can I get strings in & out of subroutine records?
>
> It appears that the sub record tries to convert all its inputs
> to "double" before calling the user function, and complains if it
> fails.  All I want is to read/write actual strings from inside
> the function.
>
> thanks,
> Mike
> SLAC
>

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