Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:01:02 -0500

Hi Tito,

On 09/10/2013 12:06 PM, Tito Körner wrote:

I have .sub file looking like this:

file "hvtest.db"
{
     pattern {PROTO, P, BOXNO, LEVELNO, CHANNELNO, ELEMENTNO}
         {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 0, 0}
         {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 1, 1}
}

Now I would need another pattern in the same .db file looking like this:

file "hvtest.db"
{
    pattern {EELO, EEUP}
         {dhcp, DHCP}
         {ip, IP}
}

I tried two dbLoadTemplate - lines in my .cmd file

dbLoadTemplate "a.sub"
dbLoadTemplate "b.sub"

but I then got Error messages saying the substitutions from the first
file are undefined. I also tried to put both patterns in one file (I
found examples with different patterns for different .db files). But
then again I get error messages saying the substitutions are undefined.
When I directly append the second pattern after the first, I get a
syntax error message. So how can this be done?

Your examples above do not make sense for template substitutions; does

the hvtest.db template file use macros named PROTO, P, BOXNO etc, or

EELO and EEUP, or all of them? If it has all of them you will need to

combine the macro values, but I don't know exactly how -- this might be

one way although I suspect it's wrong:

file "hvtest.db"
{
    pattern {PROTO, P, BOXNO, LEVELNO, CHANNELNO, ELEMENTNO, EELO, EEUP}
        {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 0, 0, dhcp, DHCP}
        {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 1, 1, dhcp, DHCP}
        {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 0, 0, ip, IP}
        {hvtest.proto, HV, 19, 0, 1, 1, ip, IP}
}

If I've misunderstood what you're trying to do you might need to include

a snippet from the hvtest.db file as well for us to understand your

question properly.

HTH,

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System