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4.6 Delimiters
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NOTE
4.6 Delimiters
4.7 Separators
The term "delimiter" is used to refer to the following possibilities for
separating data sequences.
The 3532-50 and 3522-50 recognizes either a carriage return (CR) or a
carriage return plus linefeed (CR+LF) as delimiters.
(1) CR (carriage return only)
(2) CR+LF (carriage return plus linefeed)
(1) Message unit separator
A semicolon (;) is used as a message unit separator when it is desired to set
out several messages on a single line.
Example
:RANGe:AUTO ON
;
:BEEP:KEY ON
;
*
IDN?
When messages are combined in this way, if a syntax error occurs, all
subsequent messages up to the next delimiter will be ignored.
(2) Header separator
In a message which has a header and data, a space (represented by " " in
the examples) is used as the header separator to separate the header from the
data.
Example
:LEVel V
(3) Data separator
If a message has several data items, commas (,) are required as data
separators for separating these data items from one another.
Example
:COMParator:FLIMit:ABSolute
<lower limit> , <upper limit>