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Chapter 3 Programming Your Counter for Remote Operation
Overview of Response Message Formats
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Table 3-3. Response Message Data Types (Continued)
Type Description
<string> A string response consists of ASCII characters enclosed by double quotes.
For example, string data is used for the “<error description>” portion of :SYST:ERR?
response and for [:SENS]:FUNC? response.
<definite length
block>
The syntax is a pound sign (#) followed by a non-zero digit representing the number of
digits in the subsequent decimal integer. The decimal integer specifies the number of
8-bit data bytes being sent. This is followed by the actual data. The terminator is a line
feed asserted with EOI. For example, for transmitting 8 bytes of data, the format might be:
The “2” indicates the number of digits that follow and the two digits “08” indicate the
number of data bytes to be transmitted.
A zero-length block has the format: #0<new line>^EOI
<new line> is defined as a single ASCII-encoded byte corresponding to
10 decimal.
<new line><8 bytes of data>2# 08 ^EOI
TerminatorActual data
Number of digits
that follow
Number of bytes
to be transmitted