672 Rockwell Automation Publication 1756-RM003N-EN-P - October 2011
Appendix C Structured Text Programming
Assign an ASCII Character to a String
Use the assignment operator to assign an ASCII character to an element of the
DATA member of a string tag. To assign a character, specify the value of the
character or specify the tag name, DATA member, and element of the character.
The table shows some examples.
To add or insert a string of characters to a string tag, use either of these ASCII
string instructions.
This Is Okay This Is Not Okay
string1.DATA[0]:= 65; string1.DATA[0] := A;
string1.DATA[0]:= string2.DATA[0]; string1 := string2;
To Use this instruction
Add characters to the end of a string CONCAT
Insert characters into a string INSERT