fprintf (serial communication) in matlab - string

I'm trying to communicate with differential drive mobile robot via matlab functions and .mex files. I can succesfully move the robot with command:
ref = serial('COM1');
set(ref,'BaudRate', 9600);
fopen(ref);
fprintf(ref,'C,1000,1000');
out = fscanf(ref)
fclose(ref)
delete(ref)
However, the function that I made which includes fprintf does not work:
function r = Move(ref,left,right)
fprintf(ref,'C,left,right');
out = fscanf(ref)
I'am aware that the problem is different string used in command fprintf (i.e. 'C,1000,1000' is not equal to 'C,left,right'), but I can't resolve this problem. Sorry if this is too trivial.
The ANSWER is (see comments below):
function r = Move(ref,left,right)
fprintf(ref,sprintf('C,%d,%d', left, right));
out = fscanf(ref);

You can try the following:
function r = Move(ref,left,right)
fprintf(ref,'C,%d,%d', left, right);
out = fscanf(ref)

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What's the Easiest Way to Skip a Line in a Managed String^ VC++

I'm trying to Skip a line in a Visual C++ managed String^ or String^ array but I haven't found any easy way to do so. In-fact, I've spent two days on something that would take less than 30 seconds in C#. There is a method .Skip() within C# Enumerable
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.skip?view=netframework-4.7.2
and I'd like something similar for VC++ if possible.
Here's what I've tried:
auto a = gcnew cli::array<String ^>{ "Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta" };
auto xs = gcnew System::Collections::Generic::List<String^>(a);
System::Collections::Generic::IEnumerator<String^>^ e = xs->GetEnumerator();
e->MoveNext();
^^ that throws exception class System::EventArgs has no member "MoveNext"
EDIT: I know what's causing the exception System::EventArgs has no member "MoveNext" .. using ' e ' in Visual Studio causes the compiler to think I'm referring to the e for EventArgs as in e) click_method .. I switched to another name and it populates as this: System.Collections.Generic.List`1+Enumerator[System.String]
I also tried referencing System::Linq and then
System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>^ _list = gcnew System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>(System::IO::File::ReadAllLines(filename));
System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>^ _list2 = _list->Skip(1);
which seems like it would work in C# but get the following exception
class System::Collections::Generic::List has no member skip
so the .NET library doesn't work in CLI / C++
Another thing I attempted was:
System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>^ _list = gcnew System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>(System::IO::File::ReadAllLines(filename));
System::Collections::Generic::List<String ^>^ _list2 = _list->RemoveAt(0);
but got exception:
a value of type "void" cannot be used to initialize an entity of type System::Collections::Generic::List^
I'm trying to do it without using marshal_string if possible, but I'm open for any suggestions, as I've been pulling my hair out on this, not sure what else to try =[
EDIT: this reads as an array not a String^ but I couldn't figure out how to do it with a String^ on it's own.
definitely not the quickest way but this skips x number of lines.
I am sick of CLI/C++/VC++ and can't wait to stop using it (I should have never used it in the first place and kick myself daily for not making this in C#).
//read the file to a CLI array (each line is a member)
auto a = System::IO::File::ReadAllLines("test66.txt");
//create a List from the array
auto xs = gcnew System::Collections::Generic::List<String^>(a);
//create a collection from the List
System::Collections::Generic::IEnumerator<String^>^ test66 = xs->GetEnumerator();
//the number of lines we want to skip
int x = 0;
//for loop stopping # x
for (int nxt; nxt <= x; nxt++)
{
test66->MoveNext();
}
//present selected array item to user or you could feed this into a String^
textBox11->Text = test66->Current;
feel free to give a better answer. I couldn't find much information since CLI/C++ is absolutely awful compared to C# and just about every other modern language. (IMO)

how can i pass a struct inside a linked list?

I'm new to c language,
I always find this site very helpful but could not find a clear answer to this problem.
im having a hard time to send a struct with 3 fileds as a linked list value.
this is the function:
void add_to_list(list *s, find_indexs * q)
{
list_node* ln = (list_node*)malloc(sizeof(list_node));
ln->p = (find_indexs*)malloc(sizeof(find_indexs));
ln->p->index_i= q->index_i;
ln->p->index_j = q->index_j;
ln->p->value = q->value;
ln->next =s->head;
s->head = ln;
s->size++;
}
now inside the function ln->?=(the wanted filed)
but after that im getiing a nullptr warning.
in adittion if someone can explain to me how to declare s at main,how to send and recive in function that would be very helpfull!
thank u very much,have a good day!

vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR not writing to surface

I'm trying to get a simple test of Vulkan working. I've been following the LunarG tutorials, but ran into the problem that vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR seems to do nothing. Namely, surface is not being written to. The function vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR returns 0, so it isn't reporting a failure. Any help is appreciated.
// create window
sdlWindow = SDL_CreateWindow(APP_SHORT_NAME, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, width, height, 0);
struct SDL_SysWMinfo wmInfo;
SDL_VERSION(&wmInfo.version);
SDL_GetWindowWMInfo(sdlWindow, &wmInfo);
hWnd = wmInfo.info.win.window;
hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
// create a surface attached to the window
VkWin32SurfaceCreateInfoKHR surface_info = {};
surface_info.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_WIN32_SURFACE_CREATE_INFO_KHR;
surface_info.pNext = NULL;
surface_info.hinstance = hInstance;
surface_info.hwnd = hWnd;
sanity(!vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR(inst, &surface_info, NULL, &surface));
Sascha Willems correctly identified that I was not requesting the extensions necessary to create a surface. I changed my code to request extensions as shown below, and now everything works as expected.
// create an instance
vector<char*> enabledInstanceExtensions;
enabledInstanceExtensions.push_back(VK_KHR_SURFACE_EXTENSION_NAME);
enabledInstanceExtensions.push_back(VK_KHR_WIN32_SURFACE_EXTENSION_NAME);
#ifdef VALIDATE_VULKAN
enabledInstanceExtensions.push_back("VK_EXT_debug_report");
#endif
vector<char*> enabledInstanceLayers;
#ifdef VALIDATE_VULKAN
enabledInstanceLayers.push_back("VK_LAYER_LUNARG_standard_validation");
#endif
VkInstanceCreateInfo inst_info = {};
inst_info.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO;
inst_info.pNext = NULL;
inst_info.flags = 0;
inst_info.pApplicationInfo = &app_info;
inst_info.enabledExtensionCount = (uint32_t)enabledInstanceExtensions.size();
inst_info.ppEnabledExtensionNames = enabledInstanceExtensions.data();
inst_info.enabledLayerCount = (uint32_t)enabledInstanceLayers.size();
inst_info.ppEnabledLayerNames = enabledInstanceLayers.data();
sanity(!vkCreateInstance(&inst_info, NULL, &instance));
Beside what Joe added in his answer, I will also say that the call to vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR() if provided invalid arguments does not fail and return VK_SUCCESS. I`m not sure about other platforms if this is still the case.
When I say invalid arguments I am referring to the two most important hinstance and hwnd of the vulkan structure VkWin32SurfaceCreateInfoKHR.
So pay close attention to those two arguments, it tricked me few times.
Not sure tough why is returning VK_SUCCESS while providing invalid arguments, there may be some internal related things that god know why.

Linux I2C-Dev IOCTL-Call produces wrong message

I am working with an I2C-Device under Linux and tried to use the device interface like described under folowing Link.
So if we assume following code:
char outbuf[SIZE] = { 'e', 'b' };
struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data msgset;
struct i2c_msg msg[1];
msg[0].addr = 0x53; // access address 0x53
msg[0].flags = 0; // 0 means write
msg[0].len = SIZE; // size is already set to two
msg[0].buf = outbuf
msgset.msgs = msg;
msgset.nmsgs = 1;
ioctl( file, I2C_RDWR, &msgset ); // fille is already assigned, etc.
we would write one message containing two bytes to address 0x53!?
Or we could say,
S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] Data [A] P
in the way like its done here.
But when i look at my scope, i get something like this:
or a litle more detailed:
But this is not what we want and not what the specification says,
furthermore we get
S Addr Wr [A] Data P S Addr Wr [A] Data P
Does anyone know this behavior or could describe it to me?
I tried all types of calls IOCTL, SMBUS, write_block_data.
Everytime there is a new Start Condition between data-bytes and the address is also repeated!
Am I getting something wrong?
Thanks for your time and best Regards!
Befedo
I found the misalignment...
my hardware was set up like this:
Notebook -> DP/VGA -> I2C-Slave
I used an Notebook which only got an DisplayPort output, converted this via an DP-to-VGA adapter and used the I2C-Interface where a simple Slave was attached.
And it looks like the DP-to-VGA adapter only could serve with Bytewide-Access to the I2C-Bus, so I set up a 'new' Laptop which has an VGA-Interface integrated and used it directly...
Which lead to an perfectly aligned transfer, like it was expected.

How to wrap the IO functions in Lua to prevent the user from leaving X directory

How could you wrap the IO functions in Lua to prevent someone from leaving your top level directory.
You place them in "MyDoc" and they have full IO access to everything sub of MyDoc but couldn't for example .. back into the C drive or anywhere else.
open up liolib.c. head over to these 3 functions
static void opencheck (lua_State *L, const char *fname, const char *mode) {
LStream *p = newfile(L);
p->f = fopen(fname, mode);
if (p->f == NULL)
luaL_error(L, "cannot open file " LUA_QS " (%s)", fname, strerror(errno));
}
static int io_open (lua_State *L) {
const char *filename = luaL_checkstring(L, 1);
const char *mode = luaL_optstring(L, 2, "r");
LStream *p = newfile(L);
const char *md = mode; /* to traverse/check mode */
luaL_argcheck(L, lua_checkmode(md), 2, "invalid mode");
p->f = fopen(filename, mode);
return (p->f == NULL) ? luaL_fileresult(L, 0, filename) : 1;
}
static int io_popen (lua_State *L) {
const char *filename = luaL_checkstring(L, 1);
const char *mode = luaL_optstring(L, 2, "r");
LStream *p = newprefile(L);
p->f = lua_popen(L, filename, mode);
p->closef = &io_pclose;
return (p->f == NULL) ? luaL_fileresult(L, 0, filename) : 1;
}
these are the functions you want to edit.
the first one receives the file name as the parameter fname, the second and the third
pop it out of the lua stack as the local variable filename.
now all you need to do is
1) get your own process path
2) canonize the given file path
3) compare them so that they are the same up until the last slash on both
4) if they are not the same then in opencheck use luaL_error(L,"access denied to %s", fname);
in the other two return luaL_fileresult(L,0,filename);
Presumably you have sandboxed your user environment, so for instance they can't use the builtin "require" or "dofile" or "setatable"? Basically you have to limit the functions they can call to only what you want, and create your own versions of anything you want to control. There are several ways to do this and they each have their pros and cons and nothing is unbreakable, all you can do is up the bar of experience, effort and time required to break your "jail".
This means you have to work at the C API level, but I would not recommend modifying the source unless you are very familiar with it and can easily determine that your modifications aren't easiy breakable. By staying at the C API level, at least other Lua users can help validate the solidity of the sandbox.
You have to figure out a way to enable your code to call Lua builtin without allowing the user to call the builtin. I believe you can store tables in the lua registry, where only the C code can look. It's been a while. Or maybe if you don't put getmetable in user environment, that allows you to call the builtins via metatable but user can't get to them.
For example, from C
you load the builtins such as io module and save the functions you will wrap (such as open) in a (meta)table table;
delete the builtin table io from _G so user only has access to the version you created; you've saved the functions you will need for later
create a global table called io and set its metatable to what you created in step 1, so it defines only functions you want to give access to, such as a function called "open".
In that function you do whatever filtering you need, before calling the builtin you saved.
The details will make a big difference, and implementation will be different if you use Lua 5.1 vs 5.2, but there are several good articles on sandboxing in Lua on the web (sorry no time to find), take a look and come up with something, then maybe post on Lua user mailing list or SO for pros/cons. ;)

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