Error Messages

 

 

Command Errors

 

 

 

Error

Error Description

Description/Explanation/Examples

Number

 

 

–171

Invalid expression

The expression data element was invalid (see

data

IEEE-488.2, 7.7.7.2); for example, unmatched pa-

 

 

 

rentheses or an illegal character were used.

 

Invalid expression

A mnemonic data element in the expression was not

 

data; bad mnemonic

valid.

 

Invalid expression

The expression contained a hexadecimal element

 

data; illegal element

not permitted in expressions.

 

Invalid expression

End of message occurred before the closing paren-

 

data; unexpected

thesis.

 

end of message

 

 

Invalid expression

The expression could not be recognized as either a

 

data; unrecognized

mathematical expression, a data element list or a

 

expression type

channel list.

–178

Expression data not

A legal expression data was encountered but was

allowed

not allowed by the counter at this point in parsing.

 

–180

Macro error

This error as well as errors –181 through –189 is

 

generated when defining a macro or executing a

 

 

 

 

macro. This particular error message is used when

 

 

the counter cannot detect a more specific error.

–181

Invalid outside

Indicates that a macro parameter placeholder

macro definition

($<number) was encountered outside of a macro

 

 

 

definition.

–183

Invalid inside macro

Indicates that the program message unit sequence,

definition

sent with a DDT or DMC command, is syntacti-

 

 

 

cally invalid (see IEEE-10.7.6.3).

–184

Macro parameter

Indicates that a command inside the macro defini-

error

tion had the wrong number or type of parameters.

 

 

Macro parameter

The parameter numbers given are not continuous;

 

error; unused pa-

one or more numbers have been skipped.

 

rameter

 

 

Macro parameter er-

The’$’ sign was not followed by a single digit be-

 

ror; badly formed

tween 1 and 9.

 

placeholder

 

 

Macro parameter

The macro was invoked with a different number of

 

error; parameter

parameters than used in the definition.

 

count mismatch

 

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