Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:41:28 -0400

On 04/21/2017 12:40 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Any modern scripting language should be able to extract record names and
> field values out of a DB file if you're OK with being fairly simplistic
> about it though (i.e. you don't care about expanding macros or include
> statements, or about checking record types and field values against the
> IOC's DBD file). The syntax is described in the Application Developers
> Guide Chapter 6 (Database Definition).

Steve,

https://github.com/epicsdeb/pypdb

FYI, includes a dbd parser using PLY.  As written, the 'getpvs' will
output a .po (translation) file with entries for each record name w/o
macros expansion.  Might be useful as a starting point.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System