TACL Reference Manual

Built-In Functions and Variables

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#EMSTEXT Built-In Function

Use #EMSTEXT to obtain information from an event buffer and make it available in the

function result as printable text derived from the event.

option

is one of these:

INDENT num-chars

specifies the number of characters to indent the second and subsequent lines

of text generated by the EMSTEXT procedure. INDENT 0 means no

indentation. If you omit this option, or specify INDENT -1, EMSTEXT applies its

own default indentation.

INITTEMPLATE struct

This option is reserved for use by the TACL software product.

LINES num-lines

specifies the number of lines in the print buffer. If you omit it, the default is 10

lines.

OPRLOG num

specifies the format of the printable information. If num is not zero, EMSTEXT

searches for OPMSG and TEXT tokens in the event buffer and, if any are

present, formats the printable result similarly to an operator log message. If

none is found, EMSTEXT applies its own default formatting rules.

If you omit this option, or if num is zero, EMSTEXT uses its default formatting

rules in preference to the OPRLOG format.

WIDTH num-chars

is the width of each line in the print buffer. If you omit this option, 80-character

lines are assumed.

buffer-var

is the name of a STRUCT containing an SPI buffer.

Result

#EMSTEXT returns the formatted text from the event buffer.

#EMSTEXT [ / option [ , option ] ... / ] buffer-var