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Hi All, I was hoping some of the experienced post writers could steer me in the right direction. I have a twin turret / twin spindle lathe with a decent post. It will output waitcodes at every operation change. I am interested in in modifying it so that it is a little easier to sync up operations. I know that it is common to use the misc variables or canned text to manipulate wait codes. I have done a few tweaks and gotten this to work - but one of the things I don't like about this method is it is hidden from the user when they look at the operation manager. I was thinking if I put a standard string in the operation comments, I could use that to tell the post when I want the two channels to run together and it would be a little easier to see, rather then digging though each operations miscellaneous values. I've attached a picture of what I was thinking. I've seen in some previous postings that there are some string functions within MP - are they robust enough to do something like this? Can you use regular expressions within MP? I know there could be potential problems if the user doesn't match the string perfectly, but I think it would be easier to visualize when looking at the operations as a whole, and hopefully might make it a little easier to use. Feel free to share your opinions regarding the feasibility and/or the use from a programmer's perspective. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, Dan
