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/// </summary>
public void Disconnect()
{
if (m_Client != null)
m_Client.Close();
}
///<summary>
///Write to a SCPI command to a network socket and return
the
///response if it was a query.
///</summary>
///<param name="s">SCPI command to be written to the socket</param>
///<returns>Response of the instrument or an empty string
///if there is no response.</returns>
public string Send(string s)
{
string response = ""; int i;
//Write the string to the network socket byte[] bufferout = new byte[s.Length + 1]; for (i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
bufferout[i] = (byte)s[i]; bufferout[s.Length] = (byte)'\n'; m_Stream.Write(bufferout, 0, bufferout.Length);
//If the string containes a '?', then it is a query and
//the response nneds to be read from the instrument
if (s.IndexOf('?') !=
{
// Read resonse from network stream
int numRead = m_Stream.Read(bufferin, 0, bufferin.Length);
// if the response contained any bytes, then convert
them
//to a valid string if (numRead > 0)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (i = 0; i < numRead; i++)
sb.Append((char)bufferin[i]);
//make sure that all kind of terminators are
//reported as \r\n
sb.Append("\r\n");
response = sb.ToString().Trim(new char[] { '\r', '\n'
});
if (response.IndexOf("\r\n") !=
if (response.IndexOf("\r") !=
if (response.IndexOf("\n") !=
}
}
return response;
}
}
}
Communicate with the instrument
Given the class above, the communication with the instrument can be done like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace TBertExample
{
static class Program
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