Rockwell Automation 57C610 Enhanced Basic Language, AutoMax User Manual

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The following are invalid string constants and the reasons that they

are invalid:

WRONG TERMINATOR' (Surrounding quotes must be of same

type.)
`SAME HERE" (Surrounding quotes must be of same type.)
NO TERMINATOR (No closing double quote.)

The following are examples of valid string constants assigned to

string variables and string constants used as intermediate values in

expressions:

MESSAGE$ = GEAR BOX FAULT"
MESSAGE$ = SECTION 12 AIR PRESSURE SAFETY VALVE

FAULT"
PART_MESSAGE$ = LEFT$(SECTION 12 AIR PRESSURE

SAFETY VALVE FAULT", 12)
(Valid string constant not assigned to a variable directly but used

an an intermediate value to a function.)
PRINT SECTION 12 AIR PRESSURE SAFETY VALVE FAULT"
(Valid string constant used in a print statement.)

4.2.5

Boolean Constants

With integers and strings, a constant is used in initializing or

assigning a value to a variable. Boolean variables must be assigned

the values of true or false. The two boolean constants are TRUE" or

ON" and FALSE" or OFF."
The following are valid boolean constants:

SYSTEM_READY@ = TRUE

OVER_TEMP@ = OFF

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