Going through a string as an array - what did i do?

TrikinCurt

For (i=1;i<=LENGTH_STRING(data.text);i++)
	    {
		If (debug) SEND_STRING 0,"'PARSING! step:',ITOA(i),' is ',data.text[i],'.'"
		strStatus = data.text[i]
		intStatus = ATOI(strStatus)
		strZone = ITOA(i)

Okay, my debug line prints what I expect, as data.text is simply a long string of numbers (coming back from a security system). So data.text = '222200004444' etc...

It prints the debug as step:1 is 4. That seems fine and dandy.

Why can't I convert that to an int with ATOI? I tried ATOI(data.text) and the code above, same error no matter what I do, not a compile error but a runtime error on the ATOI routine.

I know it is late, but am I doing something really wrong?

Curt

Joe Hebert

TrikinCurt wrote: »

Why can't I convert that to an int with ATOI? I tried ATOI(data.text) and the code above, same error no matter what I do, not a compile error but a runtime error on the ATOI routine.

Try changing this:
ATOI(data.text)

To this
ATOI(?data.text?)

ATOI() requires a string and Netlinx (right or wrong) does not interpret one character as a string. The double quotes forces it into a string and satisfies ATOI(). I?ve been told to always use double quotes with ATOI() to avoid any possible ambiguity.

TrikinCurt

Thanks so much! Makes sense why the debug print worked since it was in double quotes!

All better, thanks again,

Curt

Joe Hebert wrote: »

Try changing this:
ATOI(data.text)

To this
ATOI(?data.text?)

ATOI() requires a string and Netlinx (right or wrong) does not interpret one character as a string. The double quotes forces it into a string and satisfies ATOI(). I?ve been told to always use double quotes with ATOI() to avoid any possible ambiguity.