On 6/8/20 11:35 PM, Maren Purves wrote:
> We have underscores as well. I consider those normal.
My purpose is to catalog what is actually being used, and not to pass
judgement on "normal". My putting "weird" in the subject line was
shameless click bait to hopefully gather more data.
Any unicode record names out there?
> Maren Purves
> East Asian Observatory/JCMT
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:27 PM Jack via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
>
> the naming convention of SPES project contain the characters: ^ _
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mauro
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> On 08/06/2020 23:08, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk wrote:
>> I'm looking to collect examples of epics record names in the wild.
>>
>> This is an early step towards (maybe) adding restrictions on what
>> characters a record name can contain, and in what positions.
>> eg. restricting possible first and last characters.
>>
>> In particular I'm looking for examples including characters
>> beyond the usual alphanumeric separated by ':' or '-'.
>> And in what positions they may (or may not) appear.
>>
>> An example from the NSLS2 naming convention (for which I am have
>> some responsibility).
>>
>>> TST{evm:1D-DlyGen:31}Evt:Trig2-SP
>> Which is notable for containing "{" and "}" in the middle.
>>
>>
>>
>> As background. At present, records can be created with almost
>> any characters in a name.
>>
>>> record(ai, "a b") {}
>>> record(ai, "x.y") {}
>>> record(ai, "x\"") {}
>> However, record names including '.' can't be addressed and aren't
>> very useful. Further, names including spaces can't be targeted
>> by links.
>>
>> On the subject of links. Dirk was surprised to find that
>> the syntax for link parsing treats "[0]" as a record name,
>> but "[0,1]" as a constant array.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/epics-base/+bug/1882520
>>
>> Rather than carving out another exception, I'd like to look at
>> coding a general rule.
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