Device tag component or variable
The following tables show the data type specifications for a device tag component or variable according to the classification.
Data type
■Integer
Data type
Bit
Word [unsigned]/Bit string [16-bit]
Double word [unsigned]/Bit string [32-bit]
Word [signed]
Double word [signed]
16bit BCD
32bit BCD
■Real number
Data type
Single-precision real number
Double-precision real number
■Character string
Data type
Character string [Unicode]
Character string [ASCII/SJIS]
*1 The character other than BMP (U+10000 to U+10FFFF) cannot be used and it has no BOM.
*2 UTF-16LE has no BOM.
*3 Combining characters cannot be used.
Character string length
1 to 255 characters
1 to 255 characters
Variable
2 bytes
2 bytes
4 bytes
2 bytes
4 bytes
Variable
4 bytes
8 bytes
Character code
*1,*2,*3
UTF-16LE
Windows Codepage 932
Variable
2 bytes/character
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