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Chapter 3 Programming Your Counter for Remote Operation
Overview of Response Message Formats
Table 3-3. Response Message Data Types (Continued)
Type Description
<string> A string response consists of ASCII characters enclosed by double quotes.
For example, string data is used for the "<error description>" portion of
:SYST:ERR? response and for [:SENS]:FUNC? response.
<definite length The syntax is a pound sign (#) followed by a non-zero digit representing the
block> number of digits in the subsequent decimal integer. The decimal integer specifies
the number of 8-bit data bytes being sent. This is followed by the actual data. The
terminator is a line feed asserted with EOI. For example, for transmitting 8 bytes
of data, the format might be:
The "2" indicates the number of digits that follow and the two digits "08" indicate
the number of data bytes to be transmitted.
A zero-length block has the format: #0<new line>^EOI
<new line> is defined as a single ASCII-encoded byte corresponding to
10 decimal.
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Number of digits
that follow
Actual data
# 08 2 <8 bytes of data> <new line>
Number of bytes
to be transmitted
Terminator
^EOI
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