SV URL is malformed but does not generate an error

[viScience]

My original URL was:

\\192.168.0.9\PowerUnit (HMI)\test_var

This did not generate an error in my DS Write and also the DS Open call was generating a valid refnum

I finally realized that I needed the URL to be:

\\192.168.0.9\PowerUnit (HMI)\'test_var'

and then everything started working correctly.

I was just wondering why the DS Open was generating what looked like a valid refnum and why the

subsequence DS Write did not generate an error?

[Chris_VH]

sachsm,

I have found a KB for you that just shows the simple way to communicate with the DS API, but you seem to already know that.

How Do I Read/Write to a Shared Variable with the DataSocket API?  

It seems that there are one of two options that are possible. Either you have two different shared variables with the names of : test_var AND 'test_var' and your variable with the name of test_var is just not behaving as expected.

Or, the  ItemName: test_var, which is passed as the ItemID along with the AccessPath can not be distinguished as such, and is not going to the desired variable.  Hopefully this helps you some!