Bradley Smoker PLC-5 user manual Ascii Instructions, Abl, Acb

Instruction Set Quick Reference D-27

ASCII Instructions

Status Bits:

EN - EnableEM - Empty Bit

DN - Done BitEU - Queue

ER - Error BitFD - Found Bit

Instruction					Description
				ASCII Test for Line	If input conditions go from false-to-true, the controller
		ABL
	ASCII TEST FOR LINE			ABL	reports the number of characters in the buffer, up to and
					including the end-of-line characters and puts this value into
	Channel		0
					the position word of the control structure (R6:32.POS). The
	Control		R6:32		controller also displays this value in the characters field of
	Characters				the display.
					See page F-8 for a description of prescan operation for this
					instruction.
				ASCII Characters in	If input conditions go from false-to-true, the controller
		ACB
	ASCII CHARS IN BUFFER			Buffer	reports the total number of characters in the buffer and puts
				ACB	this value into the position word (.POS) of the control
	Channel		0
					structure. The controller also displays this value in the
	Control		R6:32
					characters field of the display.
	Characters
					See page F-8 for a description of prescan operation for this
					instruction.

ACI

STRING TO INTEGER CONVERSION

Source ST38:90

DestN7:123

75

Convert ASCII String to Integer ACI

If input conditions are true, the controller converts the string in ST38:90 to an integer and stores the result in N7:123.

Status	Description
Bit
C	set if a carry was generated during the
	conversion; otherwise resets

Vset if source is > 32,767 or < -32,768, otherwise resets

Z set if source is zero; otherwise resets

Sset if destination is negative; otherwise resets

ACN

STRING CONCATENATE

Source A	ST38:90
Source B	ST37:91
Dest	ST52:76

ASCII String	If input conditions are true, the controller concatenates the
Concatenate ACN	string in ST38:90 with the string in ST37:91 and store the
	result in ST52:76.

Publication 1785-UM012D-EN-P - July 2005