Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Maren Purves <[email protected]> · Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:19:04 -1000

Tim Mooney wrote:

Ian A Smith wrote:
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?

If you don't find a format string that will work, you could just grab the

whole string and parse it with an sCalcout record, using the above format.

(See
http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/synApps/calc/R2-4/sCalcoutRecord.html.)

or use a genSub - which is what I tend to do in cases where you need
only a part of the string, or split a string into more than one part.
Aloha,
Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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