Rockwell Automation 47C626 AutoMax Programming Executive V4.2 - Manual (Page 101)

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6.12 Jumping to Another Rack
Select Jump from the Commands menu in the Rack Configurator to
jump to another rack without leaving the Rack Configurator. When
you select Jump, the System, Section, Racks dialog box will be
displayed. Select the destination rack and press OK to jump to that
rack.
6.13 Substituting Variable Names
Select Substitute Variables from the Commands menu in the Rack
Configurator to substitute variable names from within the Rack
Configurator. This command brings up the Substitute Variables
dialog box. It then performs all of the requested substitutions and
returns to the Substitute Variables dialog box until you choose Exit.
Use the following procedure to substitute variable names.
Step 1.
Select Substitute Variables from the Commands menu.
The Substitute Variables dialog box is displayed (see
figure 6.7).
Step 2. Enter information for the following fields:
Search Ć The variable search string specifies the criteria
which are used to locate variables. This field can contain
from 1 to 16 characters, and can contain up to three
wildcard groups (?, which represents a single character, or
*, which represents a string of indeterminate length). The
data type character or array dimensions must not be
included in the search string.
Substitute Ć The variable substitute string determines how
the original variable name is modified to produce the
result string. It can contain from 1 to 16 characters. It can
also contain either up to three wildcards (?, which
represents a single character, or *, which represents a
string of indeterminate length) or up to 3 placeholders.
A placeholder is a designator which marks the location in
the substitute string where the substring that matches the
corresponding wildcard group in the search string is to be
inserted. The format for the placeholder is '\n', where n
identifies the ordinal number of the corresponding group
of wildcard characters in the search string.
Placeholders must be used in the substitute string instead
of the actual wildcard characters when either a group is to
be omitted or the relative positions are to change.
Wildcards and placeholders cannot be mixed within the
same substitute string.
Example: If the search string = "A??*F?H", and the target
string = "ABCDEFGH", then the wildcard group "??*"
matches the substring "BCDE" and the second wildcard
group "?" matches substring "G".
Wildcard format Ć If the substitute string = "L??*Q?S",
then the first wildcard group '??*' identifies the location
where substring "BCDE" is to be placed and the second
wildcard group '?' identifies where the substring "G" is to
be placed.