GCode meta commands case senetive?

[Chriss]

Hi *,

I understood from the docu that something like this should work:

echo "Start"
M568 P0 S230 A2
M116 P0
 
M568 P0 S30 A2
 
WHILE heat.heaters[1].current < 130
    G4 P1000 ; 1 Sekunde warten
 
echo "End"
 

But I got a "Error: Bad command: WHILE heat.heaters[1].current < 130" in the console when I execute the macro. I changed the "WHILE" from upper case to lower case and it seams to work now. Are meta commands really case sensitive?

Cheers, Chriss

[infiniteloop]

@Chriss

Are meta commands really case sensitive?

Short answer: yes.

I understood from the docu that something like this should work: (…) WHILE …

I still have to find a single instance of sample code in the docs where conditional constructs, constants or built-in functions were written in uppercase. There’s no There is no reference to using capital letters at will. The days when programmers were limited to teletype-style input devices are long gone.

[dc42]

@Chriss yes meta commands, function names and variable names are case sensitive.