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4. You can include a quote character within a string simply by
repeating the quote. For example,
"here is a "" mark"
5. Strings can have upper or lower case characters.
6. If you use a GPIB network, you cannot terminate a quoted string
with the END message before the closing delimiter.
7. A carriage return or line feed embedded in a quoted string does
not terminate the string, but is treated as just another character in
the string.
8. The maximum length of a quoted string returned from a query is
1000 characters.
Here are some examples of invalid strings:
"Invalid string argument’
(quotes are not of the same type)
"test<EOI>"
(termination character is embedded in the string)
Block Arguments
Several oscilloscope commands use a block argument form.
Table 2-6 lists and describes each part of a block argument.
Table 2−6: Parts of a block argument
Symbol Meaning
<NZDig> A non−zero digit character, in the range 1–9
Specifies the number of <Dig> elements that fo
<Dig> A digit character, in the range 0–9
<DChar> A character with the hex equivalent of 00 through FF hexadecimal
(0 through 255 decimal)
<Block> A block of data bytes, defined as:
<Block> ::=
{ #<NZDig><Dig>[<Dig>...][<DChar>...]
| #0[<DChar>...]<terminator> }
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