Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:24:08 +0000

Hi all,
I'm on a linux box with AL9.3, base 7.07, and StreamDevice 2.8.24.
I have a string input, which the controller gives as: A1,A2,B1,B2.
I want to read them individually as separate names, i.e. separate records.

My protocol is:
get_names {
     separator=",";
     out "CID";
     in  "%(\$1:G1Name)s%(\$1:G2Name)s%(\$1:G3Name)s%(\$1:G4Name)s";
}

although, I've also tried as:
get_names {
     separator=",";
     out "CID";
     in "%(\$1:G1Name)s,%(\$1:G2Name)s,%(\$1:G3Name)s,%(\$1:G4Name)s";
}

or as:
get_names {
     out "CID";
     in "%(\$1:G1Name)s,%(\$1:G2Name)s,%(\$1:G3Name)s,%(\$1:G4Name)s";
}

Of course, it works perfectly if I have:
get_names {
     out "CID";
     in "%(\$1:G1Name)2c,%(\$1:G2Name)2c,%(\$1:G3Name)2c,%(\$1:G4Name)2c";
}
However, the name can be up to 8 characters long.

I don't understand why separator doesn't work as I'm using it.
Thank you,
Pierrick

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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