Siemens SINUMERIK 808D ADVANCED Series Commissioning Manual page 301

Tag identifier
PRINT
PRINT Continued
Commissioning Manual
6FC5397-4EP10-0BA8, 07/2018
Meaning
The tag outputs a text in the dialog line or copies the text to the variable specified.
If the text contains formatting identifiers, the variable values are inserted at the appropri-
ate places.
Syntax:
<PRINT name="Variable name " text="text %Formatting "> Variable, ...
</PRINT>
<PRINT text="text %Formatting"> Variable, ... </PRINT>
Attributes:
name
•
Name of the variable where the text is to be stored (optional)
text
•
Text
Formatting:
The character "%" causes the variable specified as the value to be formatted.
%[Flags] [Width] [.decimal places] type
Flags:
•
Optional character for defining output formatting:
– Right-justified or left-justified ("-") for left-justified
– Add leading zeros ("0")
– Fill with blanks
Width:
•
The argument defines the minimum output width for a non-negative number. If the
value to be output has fewer places than the argument defined, the missing spaces
are filled with blanks.
Decimal places:
•
With floating-point numbers, the optional parameter defines the number of decimal
places.
Type:
•
The type character defines which data formats are transferred for the print instruction.
These characters need to be specified.
– d: Integer value
– f: Floating-point number
– s: String
Values:
Number of variables whose values are to be inserted into the text.
The variable types must match the corresponding type identifier for the formatting instruc-
tion and must be separated from one another with a comma.
Example:
Output of a text in the information line
<PRINT text="Infotext" />
Output of a text with variable formatting
<LET name="trun_dir"></LET>
<PRINT text="M%d">trun_dir</PRINT>
Output of a text in a string variable with variable formatting
<LET name="trun_dir"></LET>
<LET name="str" type="string" ></LET>
<print name="str" text="M%d ">trun_dir</print>
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