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Subject: [Fwd: Re: Stream Device parsing strings]
From: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
To: EPICS <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:25:40 +0200
I forgot to send this reply to tech-talk...
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Subject: Re: Stream Device parsing strings
From: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
To: Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:24:27 +0200
Hi Rod,

Separator is ONLY used when reading arrays (e.g. waveform record). It cannot be used for breaking up the input into several different records.

The problem here is the %s. As in scanf, %s reads up to the next whitespace, which is not what you want.

I suggest to use %[^;] instead to read up to the next ; (or end of string) and include whitespace.

Thus your format would look like this:

in "%(\$1PARAM01.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM02.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM03.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM04.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM05.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM06.VAL)[^;];"
   "%(\$1PARAM07.VAL)[^;]";

BTW, in the current version of StreamDevice you don't need the .VAL any more.

Dirk

Rod Nussbaumer wrote:
Hi all.

I am trying to get streamDevice to break an input string that has fields delimited with semi-colons into discrete strings. The input string as read by asyn + GPIB looks something like

BIN;RI;MSB;4;32;500;Y;100.00000000000E-12;20.90000000000E-9;"s";0.05000000000;5.00000000000E-9;21.00000000000E-9;0.00500000000;232.83064365387E-12;0.0000;"V";"C2, 50.00mV/div, 5.000ns/div,500 points, Sample mode";"C2"

My stream device protocol looks like:


WFMPRE {
    ReplyTimeout = 200;
    ReadTimeout = 50;
    InTerminator = LF;
    Separator = ";";
    out "VERBOSE ON";
    out "WFMO?";
in "%(\$1PARAM01.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM02.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM03.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM04.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM05.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM06.VAL)s%(\$1PARAM07.VAL)s";
    out "VERBOSE OFF";
}

where the records referred to by $1PARAMxx.VAL are stringout records with SoftChannel DTYP. Each successive conversion ends at either the 39th converted character, or the first whitespace. It seems to be completely ignoring the specified separator. Is this correct behavior? If so, any suggestions for accomplishing what I want (ability to access the string fields as records or as string elements of a waveform record. I intend to add more field conversions to complete the string parsing, if/when I get this much working.

The data in question comes from a Tektronix scope, and contains the data need to convert a generically scaled waveform array into an array scaled to engineering units.

Thanks.

Rod Nussbaumer
ISAC Controls, TRIUMF
Vancouver, Canada.






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