Instrument-control Toolkit - readbinblock

: data = readbinblock (dev)

: data = readbinblock (dev, datatype)

read a binblock of data from an instrument device

readbinblock will discard any data before a recognised binblock. If no binblock is found or read, an empty data will be returned.

Inputs

dev - connected device

datatype - optional data type to read data as (default ’uint8’) Valid values are:

"string"

maps to a char array

"char", "schar", "int8"

maps to int8

"uchar", "uint8"

maps to uint8

"int16", "short"

maps to int16

"uint16", "ushort"

maps to uint16

"int32", "int"

maps to int32

"uint32", "uint"

maps to uint32

"int64", "long"

maps to int64

"uint64", "ulong"

maps to uint64

"single", "float", "float32"

maps to single

"double", "float64"

maps to double

Outputs

data - data read

See also: writebinblock.