Logix 5000 Controllers ASCII

Strings
1756 ControlLogix, 1756 GuardLogix, 1769 CompactLogix,
1769 Compact GuardLogix, 1789 SoftLogix, 5069
CompactLogix, 5069 Compact GuardLogix, Studio 5000
Logix Emulate

Programming Manual Original Instructions

Logix 5000 Controllers ASCII Strings

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Summary of Changes Studio 5000 environment .......................................................................... 7

Preface Additional resources ................................................................................... 7
Legal Notices ............................................................................................... 8

Chapter 1
Communicating with an Introduction ................................................................................................ 9
ASCII device Connect the ASCII device........................................................................... 9
Configure the Serial Port ..........................................................................10
Configure the User Protocol ...................................................................... 12
Create string data types ............................................................................. 13
Read characters from the device ............................................................... 14
Send characters to the device .................................................................... 15
Enter ASCII characters .............................................................................. 16

Chapter 2
Processing ASCII characters Introduction ............................................................................................... 19
Extract a part of a Bar Code ...................................................................... 19
Look up a Bar Code..................................................................................... 19
Create the PRODUCT_INFO Data Type ............................................ 20
Search for the characters ..................................................................... 21
Identify the Lane Number ................................................................... 21
Reject bad characters .......................................................................... 22
Enter the Product IDs and Lane Numbers........................................ 22
Check the Bar Code characters................................................................. 22
Convert a value ...........................................................................................23
Decode an ASCII message ........................................................................ 24
Build a string ............................................................................................. 25

Appendix A
ASCII character codes ASCII character codes .............................................................................. 27
Index

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 Preface
This manual shows how to manipulate ASCII strings in Logix 5000
controllers. This manual is one of a set of related manuals that show common
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Communicating with an ASCII device

Introduction You can exchange ASCII data with a device through the serial port of the
controller. For example, you can use the serial port to:
• Read ASCII characters from a weigh scale module or bar code reader.
• Send and receive messages from an ASCII triggered device, such as a
MessageView terminal.

Firmware revision 3.1 and later of the 1756-EWEB EtherNet/IP Web Server
module supports the controller serial port and a socket interface that lets
Logix 5000 controllers exchange ASCII data using TCP or UDP socket
services.

Connect the ASCII device To connect to the ASCII device, use these steps.
1. On the serial port of the ASCII device, determine which pins send
signals and which pins receive signals.
2. Connect sending pins to corresponding receiving pins and attach
jumpers.

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If the communications Then wire the connectors
Handshake

Do not handshake

3. Attach the cable shield to the connectors.

4. Connect the cable to the controller and the ASCII device.
Configure the Serial Port To configure the serial port, use these steps.
1. On the Online toolbar, click the Controller Properties button.

2. On the Controller Properties dialog box, click the Serial Port tab.

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3. On the Mode menu, choose User and type the configuration settings
for the serial port.

• choose the baud rate, data bits, parity, and stop bits.
• in the Control Line menu, choose the Control Line option:
If And And this is the Choose Then
You are not using a ---------------------------------------------------------------> No Handshaking
modem
You are using a modem Modems in a point-to-point -----------------------------> Full Duplex
link are full-duplex
Master modem is full-duplex master controller. Full Duplex
while slave modem is half-
slave controller Half Duplex Select the Continuous Carrier check
duplex
box.
All modems in the system are -----------------------------> Half Duplex Clear the Continuous Carrier check
half-duplex box (default).

• in the RTS Send Delay box, type the delay (in 20 ms units) between
the time the RTS signal turns on (high) and the time that data is
sent. For example, a value of 4 produces an 80 ms delay.
• in the RTS Off Delay box, type the delay (in 20 ms units) between
the time the last character is sent and the time that the RTS signal
turns off (low).
4. Click Apply.

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Configure the User Protocol To configure the user protocol, use these steps.
1. In the Controller Properties dialog box, click the User Protocol tab.

• Enter a buffer size greater than or equal to the greatest number of

characters in a transmission. Twice the number of characters is a
good guideline.
• For ABL or ARL instructions, enter termination characters to mark
the end of the data. For ASCII codes, see ASCII Character Codes
on page 27.
If the device sends Then Tips
One termination character • In the Termination Character 1 box, type For printable characters, such as 1 or A, type
the hexadecimal ASCII code for the first the character.
character.
• In the Termination Character 2 box, type
$FF.
Two termination characters In the Termination Character 1 and 2
boxes, type the hexadecimal ASCII code for
each character.

• For AWA instruction, enter append characters. For ASCII codes,

see ASCII Character Codes on page 27.
To append Then Tips
One character • In the Append Character 1 box, type the For printable characters, such as 1 or A, type
hexadecimal ASCII code for the first the character.
character.
• In the Append Character 2 box, type $FF.
Two characters In the Append Character 1 and 2 boxes, type
the hexadecimal ASCII code for each
character.

• If the ASCII device is configured for XON/XOFF flow control, select

the XON/XOFF check box.
• If the ASCII device is a CRT or pre-configured for half duplex
transmission, select the Echo Mode check box.
• Choose the Delete Mode using the following considerations:

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If the ASCII device is Select Tips
CRT CRT • The DEL character ($7F) and the character that precedes the DEL
character are not sent to the destination.
• If echo mode is selected and an ASCII instruction reads the DEL
character, the echo returns three characters: BACKSPACE SPACE
BACKSPACE ( $08 $20 $08).
Printer Printer • The DEL character ($7F) and the character that precedes the DEL
character are not sent to the destination.
• If echo mode is selected and an ASCII instruction reads the DEL
character, the echo returns two characters: / ($2F) followed by the
character that was deleted.
None of the above Ignore The DEL character ($7F) is treated as any other character.

2. Click OK.
Create string data types Store ASCII characters in tags that use a string data type.

You can use the default STRING data type. It or You can create a string data type to store the number
stores up to 82 characters. of characters that you define.

IMPORTANT Use caution when you create a string data type. If you decide later to change the size
of the string data type, you may lose data in any tags that currently use that data
type.
If you Then
Make a string data type smaller • The data truncates.
• The LEN does not change.
Make a string data type larger The data and LEN resets to zero.

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To create string data types

1. In the Controller Organizer, right-click Strings and choose New String
Type.

2. In the Name box, type the name for the data type.
3. In the Maximum Characters box, enter the maximum number of
characters that the string data type stores.
4. Select OK.

Read characters As a general rule, before you read the buffer, use an ACB or ABL instruction to
verify that the buffer contains the required characters.
from the device
• An ARD or ARL instruction continues to read the buffer until the
instruction reads the required characters.
• While an ARD or ARL instruction reads the buffer, no other ASCII
Serial Port instructions, except the ACL, can execute.
• Verifying that the buffer contains the required characters prevents the
ARD or ARL from holding up the execution of other ASCII Serial Port
instructions while the input device sends its data.
For additional information on ASCII Serial Port instructions, see Logix 5000
Controllers General Instruction Set Reference
Manual http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/rm
/1756-rm003_-en-p.pdf.
In the following example, the device sends a fixed number of characters, such
as a bar code reader:
EXAMPLE A bar code reader sends bar codes to the serial port (channel 0) of the controller. Each bar code
contains 24 characters. To determine when the controller receives a bar code, the ACB instruction
continuously counts the characters in the buffer.

When the buffer contains at least 24 characters, the controller received a bar code. The ARD
instruction moves the bar code to the bag_bar_code tag.

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In the following example, the device sends a variable number of characters,

such as a message or display terminal.
EXAMPLE Continuously test the buffer for a message.
• Because each message ends in a carriage return ($0D), the carriage return is configured as
the termination character in the Controller Properties dialog box, User Protocol tab.
• When the ABL finds a carriage return, its sets the FD bit.

When the ABL instruction finds the carriage return (MV_line.FD is set), the controller removes the
characters from the buffer, up to and including the carriage return, and places them in the
MV_msg tag.

Send characters When you send characters to the device, you must determine either to send
the same number of characters each time or to append terminations
to the device characters to the data.
In the following example, you always send the same number of characters and
want to automatically append one or two characters to the end of the data.
EXAMPLE When the temperature exceeds the high limit (temp_high is on), the AWA instruction sends
five characters from the string[1] tag to a MessageView terminal.
• The $14 counts as one character. The hex code for the Ctrl-T character.
• The instruction also sends (appends) the characters defined in the user protocol. In this
example, the AWA instruction sends a carriage return ($0D), which marks the end of the
message.

And then to always send the same number of characters:

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EXAMPLE When the temperature reaches the low limit (temp_low is on), the AWT instruction sends
nine characters from the string[2] tag to a MessageView terminal. (The $14 counts as one
character. The hex code for the Ctrl-T character.)

In the following example, you send a different number of characters each time
and want to automatically append one or two characters to the end of the
data:
EXAMPLE When alarm is on, the AWA instruction sends the characters in alarm_msg and appends a
termination character.
• Because the number of characters in alarm_msg varies, the rung first moves the length
of alarm_msg (alarm_msg.LEN) to the length of the AWA instruction (alarm_write.LEN).
• In alarm_msg, the $14 counts as one character. The hex code for the Ctrl-T character.

Send a different number of characters each time:

EXAMPLE When MV_update is on, the AWT instruction sends the characters in MV_msg.
• Because the number of characters in MV_msg varies, the rung first moves the length of
MV_msg (MV_msg.LEN) to the length of the AWT instruction (MV_write.LEN).
• In MV_msg, the $16 counts as one character. The hex code for the Ctrl-V character.

Enter ASCII characters To enter the ASCII characters, use these steps.
IMPORTANT This String Browser window shows the characters up to the value of the LEN member
of the string tag. The string tag may contain additional data, which the String Browser
window does not show.

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1. In the AWA instruction, double-click the value area of Source.

Dollar sign ($24) Carriage return ($0D)

Single quote ($27) Tab ($09)

Line feed ($0A) The number of characters that you see in
the window. The same as the LEN member
of the string tag.
New line ($0D$0A) The maximum number of characters that
the string
tag can hold.
Form feed ($0C)

2. In the text box, type the characters for the string.

3. Click OK.

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Processing ASCII characters

Introduction You can process ASCII characters to do many things, including:

• Interpret a bar code and take action based on the bar code.
• Use a weight from a weigh scale when the weight is sent as ASCII
characters.
• Decode a message from an ASCII triggered device, such as an operator
terminal.
• Build a string for an ASCII triggered device using variables from your
application.

Extract a part of a Bar Code For example, a bar code may contain information about a bag on a conveyor
at an airport. To check the flight number and destination of the bag, you
extract characters 10 - 18.
Airline Origin Flight # Destination Date
Bar code N W A H O P 5 0 5 8 A M S 0 2 2 2 0 1
Character number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

5 0 5 8 A M S

9 characters

EXAMPLE In the baggage handling conveyor of an airport, each bag gets a bar code. Characters
10 - 18 of the bar code are the flight number and destination airport of the bag. After the
bar code is read (bag_read.EM is on) the MID instruction copies the flight number and
destination airport to the bag_flt_and_dest tag.

Look up a Bar Code For example, in a sorting operation, an array of a user-defined data type
creates a table that shows the lane number for each type of product. To

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determine which lane to route a product, the controller searches the table for
the product ID (characters of the bar code that identify the product).

To look up a bar code, follow these procedures:

• Create the PRODUCT_INFO Data Type on page 20.
• Search for the Characters on page 20.
• Identify the Lane Number on page 21.
• Reject Bad Characters on page 22.
• Enter the Product IDs and Lane Numbers on page 22.
Tip: To copy the above components from a sample project, open the Samples folder. On
the Help menu, click Vendor Sample Projects.

Create the PRODUCT_INFO To create a Product_Info user-defined date type in the Controller Organizer,
right-click User-Defined and click New Data Type. Configure the user-
Data Type defined data type as follows.
Data Type: PRODUCT_INFO
Name PRODUCT_INFO
Description Identifies the destination for an item based on an ASCII string of characters that
identify the item
Members
Name Data Type Style Description
Product_ID STRING ASCII characters that identify the item
Lane DINT Decimal Destination for the item, based on its ID

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Search for the characters You can search for characters by creating the following ladder logic routine.

The SIZE instruction performs the following:

• Counts the number of elements in the sort_table array (type
PRODUCT_INFO). This array contains the product ID for each item
and the corresponding lane number for the item.
• Counts the number of elements in Dimension 0 of the array. In this
case, the only dimension.
• Sets the Length of the subsequent FSC instruction equal to the size of
the sort_table array.
The FSC instruction searches each Product_ID member in the sort_table array
until the instruction finds a match to the product_id tag.
• The sort_table_search tag controls the FSC instruction.
• Although the previous instruction sets the Length of this instruction,
you enter an initial value to verify the project.
• The product_id tag contains the bar code characters that you want to
find.
Identify the Lane Number Add the following rung to the routine to identify the LANE member.

When the FSC instruction finds the product ID within the sort_table array,
the instruction sets the FD bit. The POS member indicates the element
number within the sort_table array of the match. The corresponding LANE
member indicates the lane number of the match.
Based on the POS value, the MOV instruction moves the corresponding lane
number into the lane tag. The controller uses the value of this tag to route the
item.

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After the MOV instruction sets the value of the lane tag, the RES instruction
resets the FSC instruction so it can search for the next product ID.

Reject bad characters

If the FSC instruction does not find the product ID within the sort_table
array, the instruction sets the DN bit. The MOV instruction moves 999 into the
lane tag to notify the controller to reject or reroute the item.
After the MOV instruction sets the value of the lane tag, the RES instruction
resets the FSC instruction so it can search for the next product ID.

Enter the Product IDs In the sort_table array, enter the ASCII characters to identify each item and
the corresponding lane number for the item.
and Lane Numbers

Check the Bar Use a compare instruction (EQU, GEQ, GRT, LEQ, LES, NEQ) to check for
characters.
Code characters
• The hexadecimal values of the characters determine if one string is less
than or greater than another string.
• When the two strings are sorted, as in a telephone directory, the order
of the strings determines which one is greater.

Use one of the following compare instruction.

To see if the string is: Enter this instruction:
Equal to specific characters EQU
Not equal to specific characters NEQ

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To see if the string is: Enter this instruction:
Greater than specific characters GRT
Equal to or greater than specific characters GEQ
Less than specific characters LES
Equal to or less than specific characters LEQ

EXAMPL When bag_flt_and_dest is equal to gate[1], xfer[1] turns on. This routes the bag to the required gate.
E

Convert a value You can convert the ASCII representation of a value to an DINT or REAL value
that you can use in your application.
• The STOD and STOR instructions skip any initial control or non-
numeric characters (except the minus sign in front of a number).
• If the string contains multiple groups of numbers that are separated by
delimiters (for example, / ), the STOD and STOR instructions convert
only the first group of numbers.
The following rung converts ASCII characters to a floating-point value:
EXAMPLE After reading the weight from the scale (weight_read.EM is on), the STOR instruction converts
the numeric characters in weight_ascii to a REAL value and stores the result in weight.

The following rung converts ASCII characters to an integer value:

EXAMPLE When MV_read.EM is on, the STOD instruction converts the first set of numeric characters in
MV_msg to an integer value. The instruction skips the initial control character ($06) and stops at
the delimiter ( \ ).

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Decode an ASCII message You can extract and convert a value from an ASCII message that contains
multiple values. A message may look like the following example:

Rung A: Find and Convert a

Floating-Point Value

The FIND instruction locates characters within a string.

• The Source contains the string tag to search.
• The Result contains the location where the FIND instruction locates
the search value you specify.
The MID instruction identifies a group of characters within a string and
places them in their own string tag.
• The source is the same string tag as for the FIND instruction.
• The quantity values tells the MID instruction how many characters to
pull from the source.
• The start value is the same as the Result value from the FIND
instruction. This tells the MID instruction where to start pulling
characters from the Source.
• The Destination contains the characters you located.

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Build a string The following example builds a string that contains two variables. For
example, an operator terminal may require a string that looks like the
following:

• For more variables, use additional INSERT or CONCAT instructions.

• If you must send a floating-point value, use a RTOS instruction in
place of the DTOS instruction.
• The final string excludes the termination character. When you send
the string, use an AWA instruction to automatically append the
termination character.
EXAMPLE To trigger a message in a MessageView terminal, the controller sends the terminal
a message in this format: [Ctrl-T] message # \ address [CR]

IMPORTANT When send_msg is on, the rung does the following:

• The first DTOS instruction converts the message number to ASCII characters.
• The INSERT instruction inserts the message number (in ASCII) after the control
character [Ctrl-T]. (The hex code for Ctrl-T is $14.)
• The second DTOS instruction converts the node number of the terminal to ASCII
characters.
• The CONCAT instruction puts the node number (in ASCII) after the backslash [ \ ]
and stores the final string in msg.

IMPORTANT To send the message, an AWA instruction sends the msg tag and appends the
carriage return [CR].

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ASCII character codes

ASCII character codes

Character Dec Hex Character Dec Hex Character Dec Hex Character Dec Hex
[ctrl-@] NUL 0 $0 SPACE 32 $20 @ 64 $40 ‘ 96 $60
[ctrl-A] SOH 1 $1 ! 33 $21 A 65 $41 a 97 $61
[ctrl-B] STX 2 $2 “ 34 $22 B 66 $42 b 98 $62
[ctrl-C] ETX 3 $3 # 35 $23 C 67 $43 c 99 $63
[ctrl-D] EOT 4 $4 $ 36 $24 D 68 $44 d 100 $64
[ctrl-E] ENQ 5 $5 % 37 $25 E 69 $45 e 101 $65
[ctrl-F] ACK 6 $6 & 38 $26 F 70 $46 f 102 $66
[ctrl-G] BEL 7 $7 ‘ 39 $27 G 71 $47 g 103 $67
[ctrl-H] BS 8 $8 ( 40 $28 H 72 $48 h 104 $68
[ctrl-I] HT 9 $9 ) 41 $29 I 73 $49 i 105 $69
[ctrl-J] LF 10 $l ($0A) * 42 $2A J 74 $4A j 106 $6A
[ctrl-K] VT 11 $0B + 43 $2B K 75 $4B k 107 $6B
[ctrl-L] FF 12 $0C , 44 $2C L 76 $4C l 108 $6C
[ctrl-M] CR 13 $r ($0D) - 45 $2D M 77 $4D m 109 $6D
[ctrl-N] SO 14 $0E . 46 $2E N 78 $4E n 110 $6E
[ctrl-O] SI 15 $0F / 47 $2F O 79 $4F o 111 $6F
[ctrl-P] DLE 16 $10 0 48 $30 P 80 $50 p 112 $70
[ctrl-Q] DC1 17 $11 1 49 $31 Q 81 $51 q 113 $71
[ctrl-R] DC2 18 $12 2 50 $32 R 82 $52 r 114 $72
[ctrl-S] DC3 19 $13 3 51 $33 S 83 $53 s 115 $73
[ctrl-T] DC4 20 $14 4 52 $34 T 84 $54 t 116 $74
[ctrl-U] NAK 21 $15 5 53 $35 U 85 $55 u 117 $75
[ctrl-V] SYN 22 $16 6 54 $36 V 86 $56 v 118 $76
[ctrl-W] ETB 23 $17 7 55 $37 W 87 $57 w 119 $77
[ctrl-X] CAN 24 $18 8 56 $38 X 88 $58 x 120 $78
[ctrl-Y] EM 25 $19 9 57 $39 Y 89 $59 y 121 $79
[ctrl-Z] SUB 26 $1A : 58 $3A Z 90 $5A z 122 $7A
ctrl-[ ESC 27 $1B ; 59 $3B [ 91 $5B { 123 $7B
[ctrl-\] FS 28 $1C < 60 $3C \ 92 $5C | 124 $7C
ctrl-] GS 29 $1D = 61 $3D ] 93 $5D } 125 $7D
[ctrl-^] RS 30 $1E > 62 $3E ^ 94 $5E ~ 126 $7E
[ctrl-_] US 31 $1F ? 63 $3F _ 95 $5F DEL 127 $7F

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 Index
S

Index send
ASCII characters 15
serial
configure port for ASCII 10
string
A data type 13
enter characters 16
ASCII manipulate 19
configure serial port 10 organize data 13
configure user protocol 12 read characters 14
enter characters 16 write characters 15
manipulate characters 19 string data type
organize data 13
create 13
read characters 14
write characters 15 T
C tag
string 13
configure
serial port for ASCII 10 U
user protocol for ASCII 12
create user protocol
string data type 13 configure for ASCII 12

D W
data write
ASCII 13 ASCII characters 15
enter ASCII characters 16

E
enter
ASCII characters 16

M
manipulate string 19

O
organize
strings 13

R
read
ASCII characters 14

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