Application
5.1 Program
SIMATIC MV500
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5.1.5
"Result" program step
You define the following in this program step:
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The format in which the read result is output.
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The criteria by which the comparison with a specification was successful.
5.1.5.1
Program format text
In this group, you specify which results and partial results of the existing program steps are
to be output.
Table 5- 49 "Format text" and "Multicode format text" parameters
Parameter
Possible values
Default
Description
Format text
see "Format text"
input box
%s
With this input box, you can specify the content and the format
of the string to be output.
"Format text" input box
A string can be a maximum of 100 bytes long and consists of any combination of the
following elements:
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Characters whose ASCII equivalent is between "01H" and "FFH"
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Formatting instructions for the output of variables, similar to the print function of the C
programming language.
You can enter characters in the following ways:
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By entering the ASCII equivalent: \mn where "m = 0, ... 9, a, ... f" and "n = 0, ... 9, a, ... f"
with the following exception: "\00" is not possible.
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By typing them in on the keyboard: Here, you can enter all the characters with an ASCII
equivalent between "20H" and "7EH". Exception: If you want to output a percentage
character, you need to enter "%%" here.
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Entering selected control characters:
Table 5- 50 Control characters and their meaning
Control character
Meaning
\r
carriage return
\n
line feed
\t
tabulator