[foxboro] Reading Text Data from a File into a Sequence Block

Hello Everyone,
 

We have the need to read and parse data from a text file into a Sequence
block.  The data consists of several fields of text and numeric values
in each record (line).  These values need to be parsed into several
sequence block string  and real  variables. I have been able to use the
rdfile dm command to access and parse the file and the setl dm command
to write the numeric data into one of the sequence block  RI variables.
However, I have not found a way to write the string data to the sequence
block.  Does anyone know of a command for writing text similar to the
setl, seti, setb commands?  Or perhaps someone knows of a better way to
accomplish this whole task.  I would certainly appreciate any ideas and
suggestions from anyone who may have done this already.

 

Sincerely,

Tom Badura

Plastics Engineering Company

 

Here is a listing of the data file and sequence code I have using as a
test.

 

testfile

TestLine01 12345 67890

TestLine02 54321 09876

TestLine03 12345 67890

TestLine04 54321 09876

TestLine05 12345 67890

TestLine06 54321 09876

 

 

Test_Seq

DEPENDENT_SEQUENCE

 

VARIABLES 

Index : I;

Width : I;

Offset : I;

FileName : S;

 

STATEMENTS

<<LOOP>>

 

WAIT UNTIL BI0001;

BO0001 := FALSE;

 

FileName := "D:/usr/plenco/displays/Develop/testfile.txt";

Index := II0001;

Width := II0002;

Offset := II0003;

 

/* Read Field From Data File and Set Into Real Input */ 

:AW9101DMCMD := "rdfile ",FileName," r24i",Index,"w",Width,"o",Offset,"
P8";

:AW9101DMCMD := "setl IA02_TEST:DEP1.RI0001 $P8";

 

BI0001 := FALSE;

BO0001 := TRUE;

 

GOTO LOOP

 

ENDSEQUENCE


 
 
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