ULP (convert the contents of file to uppercase?)

In article <jv1t77$qb3$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>, Warren Brayshaw

<warrenbrayshaw@paradise.net.nz> says...

Sure,

I imagine you have built the target file within your first ULP and are

exiting that ULP with a simple

exit(0)

You could call your second ULP, say  ToTextFileUpperCase.ulp, at the exit

with  something like

exit (Run ToTextFileUpperCase.ulp your-Path/FileName)

 

The second ulp will run after the first exits.

 

Write that second ULP to open the file specified by your Arg1 (i.e.

your-Path/FileName)

and  use strupr() within the ULP to convert chars to upper case saving each

converted line to a new  file.

 

Thank you very mugh for your help!

I was thinking of declaring a new function called my_printf() and

afterwards replacing all printf() calls with my_printf() calls. Then I

would be able to process the output before passing it to the printf().

That way I could do uppercase, or maybe insert the leading Nxxxx, or

dispose redundant commands (*) on the fly.

However, the problem is, the new function would have to be able to

accept variable number of parameters and ULP seems not to have stdarg.h

definitions from C language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stdarg.h

required to be able to handle the functions with variable number of

parameters:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c/lesson17.html

(*)

For an example, if there is a function call:

printf("G01 Z-%f F%.1f\n",mill_down, mill_speed);

inside my_printf() I might decide to dispose the Fxxxx (mill_speed)

parameter (if speed in the meanwhile hasn't changed).

Something similar to:

if (mill_speed != mill_speed_old) // if the value has changed

        {printf("G01 Z-%f F%.1f\n",mill_down, mill_speed);

        mill_speed_old = mill_speed;}

        else

        printf("G01 Z-%f\n",mill_down); // if mill_speed hasn't

changed, no need to generate Fxxxx command

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Chupo

Chupo wrote:

I have an ULP that generates output in the text file (G-code +

comments) and would like to have an option to (at the end), if

desired, covert the contents of the file to uppercase.

 

Is it possible to exit an ULP with the call to the another ULP

(passing the filename as parameter) which would open the file, convert

everything to uppercase, and save it under the same name?

 

Sure,

I imagine you have built the target file within your first ULP and are

exiting that ULP with a simple

exit(0)

You could call your second ULP, say  ToTextFileUpperCase.ulp, at the exit

with  something like

exit (Run ToTextFileUpperCase.ulp your-Path/FileName)

The second ulp will run after the first exits.

Write that second ULP to open the file specified by your Arg1 (i.e.

your-Path/FileName)

and  use strupr() within the ULP to convert chars to upper case saving each

converted line to a new  file.

HTH

Warren

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