Problem saving to Blob from Agent

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The agent is sending the IMP a string similar to this: V02000:B,V02001:B,V02000:D

I need to remove the V, the : from each and save the 2000 in 1 blob and the letter B in a different blobs. When I do the parsing, I can user server.log to see the result of the letter B being parsed out, then I write it to the blob, then later down then line when I read the blob, instead of the letter B, I get the value 16…???

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agent.on(“vmem”, function(value) { //receive data from agent

local v = split(value.tostring(),",");
numvmems = 0;
local a = 0;
dlog1.flush();
dlog1t.flush();
dlog1.seek(0,'b');
dlog1t.seek(0,'b');
for (a = 0; a <= 3 ; a++){
    //try{
        local j = split(v[a].tostring(),":");
        dlog1t.writen(j[1],'b');
        server.log(j[1]);//Here server logs the letter B or D or R
        local k = split(j[0].tostring(),"V");
        local ak = k[0];
        local vmem = (ak[0] & 7)<<12;
        vmem += (ak[1] & 7)<<9;
        vmem += (ak[2] & 7)<<6;
        vmem += (ak[3] & 7)<<3;
        vmem += (ak[4] & 7);
        dlog1.writen(vmem,'w');
        numvmems++;
    //}
    //catch(e){
    //    break;
    //}
}

gotdlog1 = 1;
dlog1.seek(0,'b');
for (a = 0; a < numvmems; a++){
    server.log(dlog1.readn('w'));
}
local tt = " ";
dlog1t.seek(0,'b');
for (a = 0; a < numvmems; a++){
    tt = dlog1t.readn('b');//HERE server logs 16  Should be the letter B or D or R
    server.log(tt);
}

});
`

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You’re trying to write a string as a byte, which is going to give you odd behaviour.

Basically, when you split v[a] you get an array of strings. The second entry in the array (j[1]) only has a single character, but it is still a string, and not a single character. You need to either index the first character of that string, or use writestring instead of writen:

local j = split(v[a].tostring(),":"); dlog1t.writen(j[1],'b');

Need to be changed to either:

local j = split(v[a].tostring(),":"); dlog1t.writen(j[1][0],'b'); // write the first character of the second part of the split string

or

local j = split(v[a].tostring(),":"); dlog1t.writestring(j[1]); // write the entire part of the split string

You also need to modify how you display you’re resultant string a little bit. If you want to write out the result as a single string (“BBD” in this case) you can just do:

server.log(dlog1t);

If you want to display each character individually, you’ll need to convert the values from a number, to a character - you can do this with format:

server.log(format("%c", dlog1t[a]));

Hopefully that all makes sense - let me know if you have questions!