Re: Dump record fields into a text file

[Luedeke Andreas <andreas.luedeke@psi.ch>]

Andrew Johnson wrote on 30/04/10 17:23:
> [...]
> The first parameter to dbl is the record type (it doesn't actually support 
> wild-cards though, "*" or "" are special strings that are explicitly tested 
> for and mean all types), so to avoid the issue of missing fields you could 
> list each record type separately, giving the fields you're interested in for 
> that type:
>     dbl bi "RTYP ZRST ONST DTYP DESC" > bi-data.txt
>     dbl ai "RTYP PREC EGU DTYP DESC" > ai-data.txt
>     dbl calc "RTYP PREC EGU CALC DESC" > calc-data.txt
> etc.
>   
This solution has the risk of "forgetting" records of uncommon record types.
Anyway, I think it would be a nice feature for EPICS 3.15 to create an
empty string if a field does not exist:

     dbl * "RTYP PREC EGU DTYP DESC"

     test:1,"bi",,,"Soft Channel","desc of test:1"
     test:2,"calc","1","unit","","desc of test:2"
     test:3,"longout",,"unit","Soft Channel","desc of test:3"

That minor change would easy parsing the dbl output.

Andreas

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