Hapter, Rimitives, Call() – Teledyne LeCroy CATC Scripting Language Reference Manual User Manual

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Primitives

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RIMITIVES

Primitive functions are called similarly to regular functions, but they are imple-
mented outside of the language. Some primitives support multiple types for certain
arguments, but in general, if an argument of the wrong type is supplied, the function
will return null.

Call()

Call( <function_name string>, <arg_list list> )

Parameter

Meaning

Default Value

Comments

function_name string

arg_list list

Used as the list of parameters in the function call.

Return value

Same as that of the function that is called.

Comments

Calls a function whose name matches the function_name parameter. All scope
rules apply normally. Spaces in the function_name parameter are interpreted as
the ‘_’ (underscore) character since function names cannot contain spaces.

Example

Call("Format", ["the number is %d", 10]);

is equivalent to:

Format("the number is %d", 10);

Format()

Format (<format string>, <value string or integer>)

Parameter

Meaning

Default Value

Comments

format string

value string or integer

Return value

None.

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