Experimental Physics and
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"Porter, Rodney R." <[email protected]> · Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:41:47 -0500

Ian, 
I have several instances similar to this, where other text makes getting the number I want almost impossible.  You might try <%5k%e;%*f;%*f;%*f;%*f>, if this doesn't work (most often because there is a space in the text that can't be matched), then read the info into a stringin record and forward link to a soft ai record that gets it's VAL from the stringin record.  

Rodney Porter

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From: Ian A Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 5:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: drvAscii decode string

I'm trying to read the following into an ascii analogin record:

"=V913 1.13e-04;59;11;0;0"

  and to extract the 1.13e-04 or whatever.  Using <%5k%f> just times out
and so does <=V913%f>.  Using %e makes no difference.  If I read the
value into a stringin record, there is no problem apart from the fact
that it's a string.

Any suggestions?

TIA

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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