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Christophe



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testing a string
PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 1:28 am     Reply with quote
Hi I am communicating with a device via a small protocol: This is our bytestring:

C-cmd1-cmd2-cmd3-cmd4-DL-D1-D2-....-Ddl

C = 0xAA = you're getting a command
CMD1-CMD2-CMD3-CMD4 = the command; eg. BATT/ADAP (means send me the battery-voltage)
DL = length of the data that is now coming
D1...Ddl = DATA itself

The question is now, how can I easily state in CSS-C :

IF ( the command = "BATT")
{
do_the_required();
}

ELSE IF ( CMD1,CMD2,CMD3,CMD4 == "BRAI" )
{
do_an_other_command();
}

These are the variables for the data:
Code:
char data[50] ;
char *p;
p = data;

appreciate your replies..
libor



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:11 am     Reply with quote
Code:
char data[50] ;
char *p;
char tempstr[5];
p = data;

strcpy(tempstr, "BATT");     //strncmp works with both strings in RAM only
if (strncmp(p+1, tempstr, 4))
  {
    do_batt_things();
  }

strcpy(tempstr, "BRAI");
if (strncmp(p+1, tempstr, 4))
  {
    do_brai_things();
  }
as an alternative you can concatenate all possible command words into one string, and search thru it for the received word. The index at which the word is found would serve as a parameter for the switch jump. strstr() has no n parametered version so you have to delimit your string manually by a 0.
Code:
strcpy(allcmdstr, "BATTBRAICMD3CMD4ETC0");
strncpy(tempstr, p+1, 4);
tempstr+4 = 0;   //you can save all this copying if you extract the DL parameter earlier and replace it with a 0 in place.
index = strstr(allcmdstr, tempstr);
switch (index) {
  case 0:  do_BATT();     break;
  case 4:  do_BRAI();  break;
  // ...etc
  default: do_syntax_error(); break;
}
If execution speed is of concern, I would rather test only some significant characters one-by-one to make a switch-case selection tree, though it would result a less readable/maintanable code and limited syntax checking.
These are untested codes typed directly here, may have errors, use them as clues only.
Christophe



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:40 am     Reply with quote
Code:
I've tested that 1st piece of code, and it's NOT working:

char data[47];
      char *p;
      char command[5];
      p = data;

// Commando gaan toetsen:

// Batterij commando?
    strcpy(command,"BATT");
    if (strncmp(p+1,command,4))
    {   
      putc('B');
    }

// Adapter commando?   
   
   strcpy(command,"ADAP");
   if (strncmp(p+1,command,4))
   {   
      putc('A');
   }


if I send: 170,65,68,65,80,0 (170,A,D,A,P,0) the program returns 66,65 (shouldn't return 66)

help wanted!


edit: this returns 1 (int8)
Code:
strcpy(command,"BATT");
i = strncmp(data[0],command,4);
putc(i);
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