Enumerated string comparisons

["Johnson, Andrew N." <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Question for core developers: Should we modify the Enum string parser to try using case-independent or other fuzzy string comparisons if a string value doesn't match using the case-dependent comparison or after trying to convert the string to an integer? We could make the IOC dwim ("do what I mean", a Perl term) in the case below, but the result is a less precise database so I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not and how far we should take it.

- Andrew

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From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: October 8, 2013, 11:50:11 PM PDT
To: Christian Pauly <pauly@physik.uni-wuppertal.de>
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: how to issue a shell command from EPICS record ?

On 08.10.2013 18:05, Christian Pauly wrote:

field(OMSL, "CLOSED_LOOP")

Any idea what i am doing wrong ?

This is the last piece i am missing to get it running...

It is not "CLOSED_LOOP" but "closed_loop". You should see an error message when loading the record and a caget on the OMSL field should show that it is still "supervisory".

Dirk