R&S AFQ100A
SCPI Command Structure and Syntax
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Overview of Syntax Elements
The following survey offers an overview of the syntax elements.
:
The colon separates the key words of a command. In a command line the separating
semicolon marks the uppermost command level.
;
The semicolon separates two commands of a command line.
,
The comma separates several parameters of a command.
?
The question mark forms a query.
*
The asterisk marks a common command.
"
Quotation marks introduce a string and terminate it.
#
The hash symbol # introduces binary, octal, hexadecimal and block data.
Binary: #B10110
Octal: #O7612
Hexa: #HF3A7
Block: #21312
A white space (ASCII-Code 0 to 9, 11 to 32 decimal, e.g. blank) separates header and
parameter.