SCARA, 6-Axis and Modules
Technical Support Notes

Article ID: T1075
Date: 8/12/02 (Revised 1/6/04) 
Product: EPSON RC+  (all versions before 3.6.0)
Subject: FmtStr adds CR to output string

Symptoms
When a string is formatted using FmtStr, a CR is appended to the end of the output string.

Causes
This is caused by a bug in EPSON RC+.

Remedy
To workaround, you can remove the CR using the Left$ function.

  FmtStr "1.234", "0.0", a$
  a$ = Left$(a$, Len(a$) - 1)

Status
This problem was fixed in version 3.6.0.

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