Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:51:18 -0600

Hi Steve,

On Thursday 22 January 2009 14:27:44 Steve Kinder wrote:
> I have seen what may be a bug with vdct when using quoted strings in
> fields. This has occured when using these strings in the calc fields of
> scalcout records. As an example using calcs like A=6?0:dbl(AA["X ","Z"]).
> vdct saves this as field(CALC, "A=6?0:dbl(AA[\"X \",\"Z\"])"). Fine.
> However when running vdct again and loading these fields back in they all
> seem to be truncated after the first \.
>
> Not sure there will be an easy workaround this. I believe the quotes within
> the field are necessary. Just wanted to report it somewhere as it seems
> like a bug.

It looks like the scalcout record understands both single- and double-quoted 
strings, so try using this for your expression instead:
	A=6?0:dbl(AA['X ','Z'])

- Andrew
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