Studio5000 Converting ASCII

We are pulling time through Modbus from 3 reg. the data we are getting back to the PLC is 12593 for hours, 13105 for minutes, and 8240 for seconds. Which I belevive is correct but that is in ASCII How can I get that in Decimal? Those 3 values come back as 11:31:0. I have attach what I am looking at thank you.

Those 16-bit INTs are already strings.

E.g.

• the 16-bit INT 13105 decimal
• => is 0x3331 (hexadecimal)
• => i.e. two bytes, 0x33 and 0x31
  • 0x33 is the ASCII code for the character '3'
  • 0x31 is the ASCII code for the character '1'

So the least you will need to do is COP those 16-bit INTs to the SINT .DATA of a string.

If you initialize a string tag, hms, with a value of "HH:MM:SS" and a length of 8 (cf. here and here), thenThat should

1. copy the string "11" (Trck1Time[0] = 12593 = 0x3131), overwriting the "HH" in the first two characters of tag hms
2. copy the string "31" (Trck1Time[1] = 13105 = 0x3331) overwriting the "MM" in the middle two characters of tag hms
3. copy the string " 0" (Trck1time[2] = 8240 = 0x2030; 0x20 is a space) overwriting the "SS" in the last two characters of tag hms
4. After those three steps, the value of tag hms should be "11:31: 0"
   1. The value may instead be "11:13:0 " because of byte order, but then the most you would need to do is
      1. Swap hms.DATA[0] and hms.DATA[1]
      2. Swap hms.DATA[3] and hms.DATA[4]
      3. Swap hms.DATA[6] and hms.DATA[7]
      4. Or you could use the SWPB instruction (cf. here) on the Trck1Time INTs before the COPs.

drbitboy that is exactly what I needed. I appreciate the help so much! Cheers Mate!!

ChaseV said:

drbitboy that is exactly what I needed. I appreciate the help so much! Cheers Mate!!

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Thanks for the feedback.