"format statement processing has failed"

[Dstan]

Hey guys first message here.  I've been machining since 2005 but until today have never messed with a post.  I work for a university in their physics machine shop and am trying to get a post figured out.  Its for a HAAS vf2 so the default one that's on mastercam 2021 works pretty well but there is a couple things I added.  I changed the "Miscellaneous Values" inputs so I can use the variables they create in the pst file.  When I use the "mi5" variable in a pbld statement it puts the value associated with the variable in the NC code which is what I want, but it also puts the name of the variable with it.  I read in a parameter manual if the variable is not formatted this will happen.  I looked up the procedure for how to do this but when I post a NC file it has an error.  I'm moderately familiar with C++ so I thought this wouldn't be a big deal but apparently I was mistaken.  Can you spot the mistake?

[Zaffin_D]

Remove the dollar sign from the nos variable in the format statement.

[DaorYae]

line 837   fs2 " " .....nos

example

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
#Select english/metric code
sg20    : "G20"      #Inch code       ----0
sg21    : "G21"      #Metric code   ----1

s................................         ----------2  （ add）

s.............................         -------------3   (add)
smetric : ""         #Target string

fstrsel sg20 met_tool$ smetric 2 -1       |>>> (2→4)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

met_tool$ = mi5$

#514 = ,   *smetric

try it like this 

 

[JParis]

It looks like you have it defined noe$ but you don't show where that variable is actually initialized

 

If that is what I am seeing that's your issue....the $ is reserved for system variables...

user created variables should not utilize the $ at the end...

[Dstan]

Yeah I forgot to say I initialized “nos” above in the code by inserting “nos :0” I also tried formatting without the dollar sign and got the same error.  I also tried doing it the way it was suggested 2 posts up and still got errors when posting.

[Zaffin_D]

1 hour ago, Dstan said:

Yeah I forgot to say I initialized “nos” above in the code by inserting “nos :0” I also tried formatting without the dollar sign and got the same error.  I also tried doing it the way it was suggested 2 posts up and still got errors when posting.

Remove that line, you initialized nos when you set it equal to mi5$

[Dstan]

That’s what I thought but get the same error when I tried it that way also.  Is it possible to display the value assigned to a variable in the NC prog without it displaying the name of the variable as well?

[Zaffin_D]

Change fs2 to fmt.

[Charlie Pierson]

This doesn't apply to your formatting question, however,

Last I knew, the # sign is used to start a comment , everything to the right of # is ignored.

If you need to output a # to your NC program you need to code it as its ascii value or 35.

example: G90G#110 could be coded in the post as "G90G", 35, "110"