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Swap Bytes Extended


snizami

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  • 4 months later...

Hi snizami,
Use "Swap bytes extended"  to copy bytes in a tag from one location to another. Paramters:

        A - Source tag (INT16/UINT16/INT32/UINT32/REAL/BUFFER).
        B - Source byte index.
        C - Destination  byte index.
        D - Length to swap.
        E - Swap type (AB_BA/ABCD_DCBA/ABCD_CDBA). 

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@NoamM, @Cara Bereck Levy

 

<rant>

Daresay, there's an error in the Help on this block.  And on the floating tooltip, too. 😪

The "Modbus" device I am reading data from is retarded and has the byte order backwards on regular old integers.  I need to read a block of four holding registers and swap the bytes so the numbers make sense.  My input block is an array of 4 UINT 16s.

I just spent an hour trying to figure out why the output array contained all 0s.  The Help on the Swap Bytes Extended block states Parameter "D" is "Sets the number of bytes to be swapped". 

I know what a byte is.  So like a good little data type rule follower I set parameter D to 8.  Four UINT 16s is 8 bytes.

The correct and working answer is actually 4 for this application.   It's not the number of bytes, it's the number of array elements.  NoamM alludes to this in his above post when he says D is "size", but that's not specific enough.

So once again, people, the correct word for Parameter D is "Elements".

 

</rant>

Joe T.

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7 hours ago, Joe Tauser said:

The "Modbus" device I am reading data from is retarded

Now, now, now, Mr. Tauser. We simply must replace that word with "intellectual disability".

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/08/01/2013-18552/change-in-terminology-mental-retardation-to-intellectual-disability

Your "Modbus" device is intellectually disabled. Now isn't that better?

🙊

😂

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On 2/10/2024 at 7:20 AM, Joe Tauser said:

@NoamM, @Cara Bereck Levy

The correct and working answer is actually 4 for this application.   It's not the number of bytes, it's the number of array elements.  NoamM alludes to this in his above post when he says D is "size", but that's not specific enough.

So once again, people, the correct word for Parameter D is "Elements".

@Joe Tauser

I fixed that in the Help (you'll see it next release) and had the software guys fix the tooltip--apologies, and thanks for tagging me directly!

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This was very helpful Joe T

Same retarded modbus device

Here is my solution before and after i read this tread. And i did use a lot more than one hour on swap bytes extended

4 byte buffer to int32

 

 

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