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Subject: RE: Oddity with mbbo strings
From: "Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:59:34 -0700
Hi Emmanuel,

I'm unable to reproduce this problem on epics 3.14.8.2, linux-x86 (RHEL4, 32 bit).  Perhaps someone else can.  It would be helpful if you provide the version of EPICS base, the OS, and dbpr of both records (level 4 or 5).

Stephanie Allison

> -----Original Message-----
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> Of [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:19 PM
> To: EPICS tech-talk
> Subject: Oddity with mbbo strings
> 
> I am trying to pass the value of a stringout to a ZRST of a mbbo record.
> I set the OUT field of the stringout to point to that field in the mbbo.
> To my surprise the end of string \0 is not passed.
> 
> As a result if the new string written on that field is shorter than the previous one, well ...
> the resulting value is a superposition of the 2 strings.
> That is
> "LONG_STRING" -> ZRST   -- works as expected
> "SHORT" -> ZRST         -- stored value os "SHORTSTRING"
> 
> Is there a work around?
> can sCaclout help?
> 
> --
> Emmanuel


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Oddity with mbbo strings emmanuel_mayssat

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