Re: caget with an array of space-containing strings

[Matthieu Bec <mbec@gemini.edu>]

Hi Carl,

if your string holds any kind of valuable information, it might be best 
to break it down as soon as you get in your ioc - other processes will 
make sense of it without having to re-parse the information, including 
caget.
xml enthusiasts please destroy my argument but I found strings more like 
a convenient SMS.
Looking at your output, if you're debugging something lower level 
consider a regexp (scripted, or awk if you want command line) will 
probably do the job.

Matthieu

Carl Schumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the command-line caget with an array of space-containing 
> strings.  Apparently caget uses spaces to separate array elements.   A 
> space separator causes some difficultly in this case because the 
> elements themselves contains spaces.   For example, ...
> > clx39:~ $ caget -# 1 ADC00.RNGS
> > ADC00.RNGS                     50, 10k: -10->0
> > clx39:~ $ caget ADC00.RNGS
> > ADC00.RNGS 9 50, 10k: -10->0 50, 10k: +-5 50, 10k: 0->10 50: -6->0, 
> > 10k: -5->0 50: +-3, 10k: +-2.5 50, 10k: 0->5 50: -5->0, 10k: -2->0 50: 
> > +-2.5, 10k: +-1 50: 0->5, 10k: 0->2
> > clx39:~ $
> One can ask for specific elements as I have done, but that is a little 
> bit inconvenient.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl Schumann


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