Conversion To Lower/Upper Case; Length Of The String - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Programming Manual

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Flexible NC programming

1.10 String operations

Conversion to lower/upper case

This functionality permits conversion of all letters of a string to standard capitalization.

STRING_ERG = TOUPPER (STRING)

STRING_ERG = TOLOWER (STRING)

All lower case letters are converted to either upper or lower case letters.

Because user inputs can be initiated on the HMI, they can be given standard capitalization

(upper or lower case):

DEF STRING [29] STRG

IF "LEARN.CNC" == TOUPPER (STRG) GOTOF LOAD_LEARN

This functionality sets the length of a string.

INT_ERG = STRLEN (STRING)

It returns a number of characters that are not the 0 character, counting from the beginning of

This can be used to ascertain the end of the string, for example, in conjunction with the

single character access described below:

IF(STRLEN (MODULE_NAME) > 10) GOTOF ERROR

Result type: STRING

Result type: INT

Programming Manual, 03/2006 Edition, 6FC5398-2BP10-1BA0

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