OutString
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Purpose
String output (Macro only)
Description
"OutString" displays the given text in the Dataplore ® message window.
The data type of such a text is called "string" and consists of a sequence of
letters within double quotes ("). String variables are concatenated with text
strings by a '+' (as shown below).
Numeric variables of type int and float are converted into string
variables automatically.
This function is available in the macro language only.
Example
Consider the following example demonstrating the various ways of
using "OutString":
float a,b,c;
string funcname;
signal s;
funcname="Fnct";
a = 0.1;
b = 3.14159;
s = Fnct(a, b, &c); // c is set by Fnct()
OutString("Result of ");
OutString(funcname);
OutString(" is " + c + ". Parameters were " + a + " and " + b + ".");
return s;
Macro Synopsis
OutString(s);
string s;
Modules
Basic
Related Functions
OutError