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Rockwell Automation 5370-UPK CVIM USER-PAK Option User Manual

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Chapter 8

Defining Strings for Serial Ports and Viewports

8–31

and

g2

, which cause the transmission of the gage 1 and gage 2 results

(109 and 112), respectively.

Gage 2 result

Gage 1 result

Results 109 112 [CR] [LF]

Format Codes – are optionally included in parentheses next to data
codes, and determine, among other things, how many places the
transmitted data will be allowed in the transmitted message. In the
example, the format code

(3)

is included with each data code, limiting

the transmitted data to 3 places (if no format code is included, the default
format for data is 9 places).

Format Codes – (3)

Results 109 112 [CR] [LF]

Newline Character – consists of an

n

(upper or lower case), and results

in the transmission of the carriage return [CR] and line feed [LF]
characters. The example includes a single newline character at the end of
the string.

Newline Character

Results 109 112 [CR] [LF]