Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ben Franksen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:02:17 +0100

Am 04.02.21 um 01:21 schrieb Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk:
> A colleague just presented me with one of those frustrating little
> problems where his database wouldn’t load because he spelled a
> calcout.OOPT field value using “to” instead of “To” and he couldn’t
> find it.
> 
> How about when putting to a menu field we do a second pass through
> the choice strings using epicsStrCaseCmp() so this kind of thing
> would be silently accepted? The first pass should still use strcmp()
> in case some IOC has choices (in mbbo strings) that only differ by
> case, but the second pass would accept the first to match even when
> the cases differ.
> 
> We could make this configurable so sites could turn it off, or even
> have it display a warning, but I’m not sure who would really want
> that much strictness.
> 
> I already wrote the code, although it could be posted as a Codeathon
> project instead (requiring tests and Release Notes as well).

A fat +1 from me. And I would include DBF_ENUM, too, if that is feasible.

Cheers
Ben
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System