Siemens SIMATIC MV500 Operating Manual page 77

Note
Representation of printable characters
After entering a printable character in the "Format text" input box, this is displayed explicitly
on the screen.
Example: After entering "\41", "A" is displayed on the screen.
A formatting instruction has the following structure:
% [number of places] variable {selection of variables} <variable interval>
Square brackets
Curly brackets
Angle brackets
Remember that you do not enter the brackets. They are simply used for representation.
Table 5- 51 Possible formatting instructions
Formatting instruction
%g
%s[M-N]
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= This is an optional input.
= Exactly one value must be selected from within the curly brackets.
= Exactly one value must be selected from within the specified interval.
Meaning
Unique ID of the image consisting of 24 uppercase/lowercase letters, numbers, underscore
or dots.
The same unique ID is transmitted by MMI where it can be used as part of the file name of
the saved images.
Filtered result string
Mth to Nth character of the filtered result string.
If the result string is shorter than N characters, it is filled with spaces, so that
N minus M characters are always output.
If M > N, the characters are output backwards.
Application
5.1 Program
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