Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Programming Manual page 84

Flexible NC programming
1.9 String operations
Examples
Example 1: Concatenation of strings
Program code
DEF INT IDX=2
DEF REAL VALUE=9.654
DEF STRING[20] STRG="INDEX:2"
IF STRG=="Index:"<<IDX GOTOF NO_MSG
MSG("Index:"<<IDX<<"/value:"<<VALUE)
NO_MSG:
Example 2: Explicit type conversion with <<
Program code
DEF REAL VALUE=3.5
<<VALUE
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Comments
; The specified type REAL variable is converted into a
STRING type.
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Comments
; Display:
"Index:2/value:9.654"
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