Hi all.
I am new to codesys but I am getting the hang of it. I only struggle with the arrays. Now i need to do some actions with arrays and i have no idea how to start.
Here's the situation:
I want to put 50 codes into the plc (these will never change). When someone scans an article, a code is given in the plc with an "array [0..3] of byte".
Now I want to compare this result with the 50 other codes. All codes are the same length.
But i have no idea how to compare the array of byte with the codes. How to convert the array to a string? Or are there other options? Does anyone knows a solution with this problem?
All has to be done in ST btw

Many thanks.

Hi,

I would stick the codes into an array of dwords, a pointer to dword to the 4 bytes that come from the scanner and then a for loop to look through the array to see if you find a match.

Heinz

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teichhei hat geschrieben:
Hi,
I would stick the codes into an array of dwords, a pointer to dword to the 4 bytes that come from the scanner and then a for loop to look through the array to see if you find a match.
Heinz
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I could check that
Do you know if it is possible by converting it into a string or whatever? It could be easy to know when i have to work on other projects if there are more bytes.
Thanks in advance

You can also leave the codes as an Array of string and use oscat basic Chr_to_string and concat in a loop to build your string from bytes. Or you do a pointer to string with an address of aByte[0..79] and load your four bytes into [0..3] and make sure the rest stays 0. Then it's flexible with the lenght as well.

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Thanks for the reply I'll work on it

Originally created by: KevinR

Hello NBCC,

check out the CAA Memory Library. There is a Compare function under the category "CAA_Memory" --> "Analysis" -->"ARRAY and MemoryBlock". With this function you can compare arrays and find the first position of the change.

wPosition := MEM.Compare(ADR(arrArray1),ADR(arrArray2),SIZEOF(arrArray1));
IF wPosition >= 1 THEN
    ; // difference on position X
END_IF

Regards,
KevinR