Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Is there a way to concatenate two strings in EPICS?

Googling “concatenate strings epics” brings up sCalcout. I tried using sCalcout, but it insists on converting the inputs to floating point values and this causes some problems:

record (stringin, "$(Sys)$(Dev)OLFQ")

{

    field (DESC, "Open Loop Frequency")

    field (DTYP, "Soft Channel")

    field(SCAN, "Passive")

}

record (stringin, "$(Sys)$(Dev)MVOL")

{

    field (DESC, "Open Loop Steps")

    field(SCAN, "Passive")

}

record (scalcout, "$(Sys)$(Dev)Result")

{

    field (DESC, "Open Loop Steps")

    field(SCAN, "1 second")

    field(INPA, "$(Sys)$(Dev)MVOL")

    field(INPB, "$(Sys)$(Dev)OLFQ")

    field(CALC, "STR(A)+STR(B)")

}

If I set $(Sys)$(Dev)OLFQ to 1, and $(Sys)$(Dev)MVOL to 2, the result I get in SVAL is “1.00002.0000”. Is there any way to get just “12”? If I do it without the STR around A and B, it numerically adds A and B and I get “3.0000” for SVAl. Is it not possible to just concatenate two string PVs in epics?

Alex