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Subject: Re: Using a Waveform record (char type representing a String) as input to an aSub record
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: David Michel <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS mailing list <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:57:03 -0700
<pedantic mode>

Minor point — the myString declaration and cast should be
	char *
not
	char **

<pedantic mode/>

On Mar 10, 2014, at 9:27 AM, David Michel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm using a Waveform record of type char to represent a string (not using a  Stringin or Stringout record since this string has more than 40 characters).
> 
> That works well and I can easily put a string into this record such with caput -a and read it back with caget -s
> 
> Now, I need to use this string in an aSub record but I'm having difficulties in doing so.
> 
> char ** myString;
> myString = (char **) precord->a;
> printf("%s\n",myString);
> 
> The results of the printf statement shows only the first character of the string in ASCII.
> 
> Any idea of I can solve this?
> 
> Many thanks
> David

-- 
Eric Norum
[email protected]



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