Metrohm tiamo 1.2 Manual - Handbuch (Seite 56)

30 General program functions
Rules of priority for operators
The operators are processed in the sequence in which they are listed in the follow-
ing table. It may be necessary to set operands in brackets to get the desired se-
quence.
Operators
^
*, /
Arithmetic
+, -
Compare <, <=, >, >=
Logic AND, OR
Operators - Arithmetic
Addition
Syntax
Operand1 + Operand2
The operands can either be entered directly or as a Variable and can be
of the type
Text , Number or Date/Time .
Examples
Operand1 Operand2 Result Example Remarks
Both operands of the same type:
Number Number Number 1.2 + 3 = 4.2 -
Text Text Text "Metrohm" + "AG" = "Metrohm
AG" If the maximum permitted length
(65'536 characters) of the charac-
ter string is exceeded by the addi-
tion of the operands then the ex-
cess characters will be cut off by
the 2
nd
operand.
Time Time Time Time(1998;04;06) +
Time(1964;02;03) = 59300.875
(for UTC+1)
Time() : see function Time(Date)
Result: number of days calculated
since December 1899, dependent
on the system time
Operands of different types: the operand that does not correspond to the type of result is converted
to the particular result type before the operation.
Number Text
Text 1.2 + "Metrohm" =
"1.2Metrohm" -
Text Number Text "Metrohm" + 1.2 =
"Metrohm1.2" -
Number Time Number 2.0 + Time(1999;11;7) =
36472.96
(for UTC+1)
Result: number of days calculated
since December 1899, dependent
on the system time