Re: subArray / waveform problem

["Rodney R. Porter" <rporter@anl.gov>]

I haven't tried using the subArray record, but have done similar
manipulations using a genSub record.
Rodney Porter


On 1/23/08 9:07 AM, "Shepherd, EL (Emma)" <emma.shepherd@diamond.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I have a waveform record with FTVL set to String, but some of the
> elements are actually floating point numbers and I would like to
> separate them all out into individual records.
> 
> Has anyone ever tried using multiple subArray records with different
> FTVL settings for this purpose?  I've tried to do this but can't get it
> to work properly, here's my problem:
> 
> Using the following database, I can do 'caput -a ARRAY 1 2 3 4' - no
> problem, P1=1, P2=2, P3=3 and P4=4.  If I do 'caput -a ARRAY 3 4 "any
> string" 5' - P4 does not get updated, so I get P1=3, P2=4, P3="any
> string", P4=4.  In fact it seems that any numbers appearing after the
> string element in the array do not get updated.
> 
> Any ideas? Would you expect this to work?
> 
> 
> record(waveform, "ARRAY") {
>   field(NELM, "4")
>   field(FTVL, "STRING")
> }
> 
> record(subArray, "P1") {
>   field(FTVL, "FLOAT")
>   field(INP, "ARRAY CP")
>   field(NELM, "1")
>   field(MALM, "4")
>   field(INDX, "0")
> }
> 
> record(subArray, "P2") {
>   field(FTVL, "FLOAT")
>   field(INP, "ARRAY CP")
>   field(NELM, "1")
>   field(MALM, "4")
>   field(INDX, "1")
> }
> 
> record(subArray, "P3") {
>   field(FTVL, "STRING")
>   field(INP, "ARRAY CP")
>   field(NELM, "1")
>   field(MALM, "4")
>   field(INDX, "2")
> }
> 
> record(subArray, "P4") {
>   field(FTVL, "FLOAT")
>   field(INP, "ARRAY CP")
>   field(NELM, "1")
>   field(MALM, "4")
>   field(INDX, "3")
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Emma
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