VB Timer returns string?? i need integer!

[rblack]

hello,

i am fighting all day with strings and integer, a simple string2int or working CInt(string) funtion would solve the problem, but it doesnt work, so plese help me in another way.

I want to measure the elapsed time, and i do the following operations:

==============
VBSTART
VBEND

VBEval>Timer,opened
label>start
//200 lines of code, but not a single word include "open" or "close", there are no hidden characters

VBEval>Timer,closed

let>diff=closed-opened

if>diff>3000
goto>start
endif

=================

unfortunatelu the diff variable is recognized as STRING, i tried to do

if>{%closed%-%opened%}start
endif

and some parse errors occured, but it worked. Nevertheless i do not want any errors to occur.

I tried to use
VBEval>Timer-%opened%,elapsed

but i got complie errors when using that line

I am using Macro Sheduller 11
PLEASE HELP! I AM REALLY FED UP WITH THIS PROBLEM AND UNPROPER NUMBERS RECOGNITION

[JRL]

Try:

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VBSTART
VBEND

VBEval>Timer,opened
label>start
//200 lines of code, but not a single word include "open" or "close", there are no hidden characters

VBEval>Timer,closed


//Percents around the variables
let>diff=%closed%-%opened%



let>diff=closed-opened

if>diff>3000
goto>start
endif 

a simple string2int or working CInt(string) funtion would solve the problem,

There are no "strings" or "integers" in Macro Scheduler. The individual functions deal with text and decide correctly what the text format might be. There is no requirement nor any method to declare a format.

[rblack]

i have % around the variables, but the forum has removed this

[rblack]

deal with text and decide correctly

then why i keep getting the error:
"Line: 138 Operator opMinus incompatible with String
Line: 138 Internal parser error. Code 10"

and line 138 and 137 are the followin ones:

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//Percents around the variables
let>diff=%closed%-%opened%
if>diff>3000
goto>start
endif 

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[rblack]

even
let>IGNOREERRORS=1

dosent handle those 2 bugs from macro sheduller

[Marcus Tettmar]

I have no problems with your code, copied below.

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VBSTART
VBEND
VBEval>Timer,opened
label>start
//200 lines of code, but not a single word include "open" or "close", there are no hidden characters
VBEval>Timer,closed
let>diff=closed-opened
if>diff>3000
  goto>start
endif

Works fine for me. I'm running Macro Scheduler 12.0.5.

[gdyvig]

Hi rblack,

Make sure you have used Edit>Remove Trailing Spaces to ensure all of your variable names and variable values are what you expect.

Sometimes a contaminated variable value can be fixed as follows:

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//variables intended to be numeric but may contain some extra characteres causing MS to interpret it as a string.

//remove extra characters by forcing a numeric interpretation
Let>opened=%opened%+0
Let>closed=%closed%+0
//Now the calculation should work
Let>diff=%closed%-%open%

I ran your code in debug mode and got these values:

DIFF=3
CLOSED=29340.67578125
OPENED=29337.67578125

For some reason the results are not coming back as integers, but as a decimal number with a very unrealistic precision.

Please check the syntax of the CLOSED and OPENED values returned by the Timer. Do they contain the commas (the THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR). That will cause the error you see.


Your posts of code should not remove the percent signs if you use the Code button and click the Disable HTLM in this post checkbox.