How can I use spaces as delimiters in serial data strings?

[Peter Palmer]

I'm acquiring ASCII data strings from an RS232 device, which has multiple channel values separated by spaces - how can I get Dasylab to recognise the spaces as channel separators?

Example <STX>_AKON 6 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678 00000000 00000000<ETX>

Channel 1 to 4 data values are all 12345678 and are of variable length, the two 00000000 values can be discarded.

Many thanks.

[CJ_Butler__DASYLab_Pro]

Chan 0: "\x02_AKON" a \x20
will lock on the start of line, and find the first value that ends at the space
<STX> is Hex 02, represented in the parsing string as \x02

Chan 1: a\x20
space is the delimiter, represented by hex 20, or \x20
Chan 2: a\x20
...
Chan 6: a\x03
The last value terminates with <ETX> which is Hex 03

Discard 5 and 6 by not using them, or not creating them. Channel 0 ensures that you consistently start at the first character of the line, <STX>.

Hope this helps.

[Peter Palmer]

CJ,

Worked like a charm and the "search for character string" is a much better anchor than the skip function I was using - many thanks for your help.

Peter