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Subject: Re: waveform arrays within SNL
From: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:13:24 +0200
On 20.06.2017 23:42, Al Honey wrote:
> But the other waveform record holds an array of strings -
field(FTVL,"STRING") - and continues to thwart me.
>
> caput k1:osiris:ss1:posnames "one two three four"
> caget k1:osiris:ss1:posnames
> k1:osiris:ss1:posnames 4 one two three four
>
> Trrying what I think is correct in SNL, I get compilation errors:
>
> #define MAX_ENTRIES 100
>
> string posnames[MAX_ENTRIES];
> assign posnames to "{tel}{instr}:{mech}:posnames";  // this is the
'string' waveform record
>
> local variable is:
> string names[4] = { "0.100", "0.050", "0.035", "0,020" };
>
> state STARTUP {
> entry {
>         for (idx=0; idx<4; idx++ ) posnames[idx] = names[idx];
>         pvPut( posnames );
> }
> .
> .
> .
> }
>
> error: incompatible types when assigning to type string from type char *
>            posnames[idx] = names[idx];

The SNL type 'string' is compiled to 'char[40]' in C. The assignment in
the loop body is therefore not valid C. Using strcpy or one of its
variants should work.

Cheers
Ben
-- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." ― Scott Adams

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