These functions read out information from an info field of a data file, a signal or a module available as a text channel.

Arguments

'Index'

Index of the data file, the signal or module

'InfoField'

Info field to read; put in quotation marks.

'Begin'

Optional: First character of the field content to be read. If you do not specify a value, the entire content is read.

'End'

Optional: Last character of the field content to be read. If you do not specify a value, the content is read from 'Begin' to the last character.

InfoFieldText

InfoFieldText('FileIndex',"'InfoField'",'Begin'=0,'End'=Text end)

Description

This function returns the content of an info field as a text signal.

ChannelInfoFieldText

ChannelInfoFieldText('ChannelIndex',"'InfoField'",'Begin'=0,'End'=Text end)

Description

This function returns the content of an info field of a signal as text.

ModuleInfoFieldText

ModuleInfoFieldText('FileIndex','ModuleIndex',"'InfoField'",'Begin'=0,'End'=Text end)

Arguments

'FileIndex'

Index of the data file to which the module belongs

'ModuleIndex'

The index of the module

'InfoField'

Info field to read from the module; put in quotation marks.

'Begin'

Optional: First character of the field content to be read. If you do not specify a value, the entire content is read.

'End'

Optional: Last character of the field content to be read. If you do not specify a value, the content is read from 'Begin' to the last character.

Description

This function works as the InfoFieldText and ChannelInfoFieldText functions, however, it refers to the info fields of a module and not the data file or signal. The function returns a text signal with the content of the specified info field.