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Section 2: TSP Programming Fundamentals Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual

2-36 3700S-901-01 Rev. C / July 2008

This function returns multiple parameters (sum, difference, and ratio of the two

numbers passed to it):

function sum_diff_ratio(parameter1, parameter2)

psum = parameter1 + parameter2

pdif = parameter1 – parameter2

prat = parameter1 / parameter2

return psum, pdif, prat

end

sum, diff, ratio = sum_diff_ratio(2,3)

print(sum)

print(diff)

print(ratio)

The function's output is:

-1

0.66666

Tables/arrays

TSL makes extensive use of the data type "table," which is a very flexible array-

like data type.

To define a table:

-- A table with four elements, which are numbers.

atable = {1, 2, 3, 4}

Send the following commands to print it:

-- Tables are indexed on one, NOT zero. atable[index] is

true if there is an element at that index. nil is

returned otherwise. 0 does NOT evaluate to false, only

nil does.

i = 1

Index into table using a number.

while atable[i] do

print (atable[i])

i = i + 1

end

The command's output is: