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haquin wrote:

Hi,

I initialize the INPH (with macro substitution) of a gensub record with a string,

but it is never transferred to the corresponding H variable ...

in the IOC shell I use the commands:
epics> dbgf MyGensub.INPH
       DBR_STRING:          MyString NPP NMS

epics> dbgf MyGensub.H
       DBR_STRING:

The behaviour is different if I use LONG instead of STRING ...

Can someone tell me how to do retreive MyString in MyGensub.H ?

You can use a stringout record to hold the string, like so:

record(stringout, "myStringInit") {
   field(VAL, "$(MYSTRINGMACRO)")
   field(UDF, "0")
}
record(aSub, "myASub") {
   ....
   field(INPH, "myStringInit")
   ....
}

Then, dbLoadRecords("myDatabase.db", "MYSTRINGMACRO=MyString")


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