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  1. Bug #1935037
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1935037

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Ralph Lange (ralph-lange) wrote :

That's why I wrote "CALC-like expressions".
Clients may want to allow things beyond the narrow limits of the existing calc/calcout records.

Fun fact: same thing caused Siemens to create all names for OPC UA with an extra set of double quotes around every name part in the hierarchy. Since special characters need to be quoted inside field values in EPICS databases...
  field(INP, "@PLC1 ns=3;s=\"DB1\".\"struct\ 1\".\"element\ 2\"")