I have a string veriable. Can I set its content to another veriable?

[Rafi2003]

Hi

In a string variable defined in TestStand, you normally enter a sting.  TestStand add the quotes around your data.  For example you put ABC and you get "ABC".

I have a situation where I want to put a formula instead of a sting.  For example   Str(locals.integerA).  If I enters this data I get "Str(locals.integerA)" which is, obviously not what I want.....

Is there a way around it?

Thanks

Rafi

[GuenterMueller]

Sorry Rafi. I do not understand your problem.
The quotes appear in SeqEdit but they are not part of a string variable's value.
No need to search for a workaround ... (Please correct me if I couldn't catch your point.)

Guenter

[AllenP]

This is not possible.  One way around it is to have an expression and evaluate it.  You will have to use a step to execute this expression.  For your example, you will have to have to execute the expression "Locals.MyLocal = Str(Locals.IntegerA)".

Allen P.
NI

[Sean.C]

Rafi,

I am not sure that I understand your question, but I will try to answer it as best I can.

normally if you had a string variable such as 'Locals.String' and you wanted it to contain the value 'ABC' you would write the following expression:

Locals.String = "ABC"

If you had another variable (say a numeric) called 'Locals.integerA' and you wanted a string representation of the numeric content you would write:

Locals.String = Str(Locals.integerA)

The Str() function would convert the numeric value to string representation.

If you were looking for something else, please respond/clarify and I will try to address your concern.

-Sean

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

If you have a string which contains some expression

eg Locals.MyString ="Str(Locals.IntergerA)"  and the contents of Locals.IntergerA  = 5.

If you use Evaluate(Locals.MyString) in a step, say the datasource of a Numeric Limit Test step, then this will return the value of 5.

Hope this helps

Regards

Ray