EPICS Re: CSS - how to read waveform of CHARS (or STRINGS) in a script?

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Hi All,

We tried Hugo's solution, but this only got the first character of the string for us so we used getLongArray instead and had to do some splitting to remove brackets and L's which were returned along with the int array.

There may be a more elegant way to do it but the code as follows worked for us.

Cheers,

Isabella

from org.csstudio.opibuilder.scriptUtil import PVUtil
from org.csstudio.opibuilder.scriptUtil import ConsoleUtil

#Get characters as Long Int array
#This has form e.g. 'array('l',[70L,69L,45L])' sans quotes
v = PVUtil.getLongArray(pvs[0])

#split array on starting square bracket '['
v = str(v).split("[")

#if this is false it means '[' wasn't present
if len(v)>1:
# Select part after '['
v = v[1]

#Cut off end of array marked by "]"
v = v.split("]")[0]

#Remove "L"'s from array (signifying long ints)
v = v.replace("L","")

#split string on commas into list
v=v.split(",")
#rejoin characters into string
strArray = "".join(chr(int(i)) for i in v)

On 13 March 2015 at 19:47, Hugo Slepicka <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Isabella,

I think that this will work for you:

from org.csstudio.opibuilder.scriptUtil import PVUtil
from org.csstudio.opibuilder.scriptUtil import ConsoleUtil

v = PVUtil.getString(pvs[0]).split(",")
myStr = "".join(chr(int(i)) for i in v)
ConsoleUtil.writeInfo(myStr)

HTH,
Hugo

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Isabella Rey <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,

In CSS (Windows), I am trying to read a waveform of CHARS inside a Python script.
When I do PVUtil.getString, I get displayed a sequence of numbers instead of characters.

Is there any way to get the text in the script??

If I create a text update widget pointing at the waveform, I get the text correctly, I want to get the same in the script.

If it helps:
for what I need to do, I can also have a waveform of strings, rather than chars, and I need to extract the strings in the Python script.
Whichever works would be fine!

Cheers,
Isabella

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Subject:	Re: CSS - how to read waveform of CHARS (or STRINGS) in a script? - SOLVED
From:	Isabella Rey <[email protected]>
To:	[email protected]
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:18:56 +0000

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