Instrument Control Toolbox    
clrdevice

Clear instrument buffer

Syntax

Arguments

obj
A GPIB, VISA-GPIB, VISA-VXI, or VISA-GPIB-VXI object.

Description

clrdevice(obj) clears the hardware buffer of the instrument connected to obj.

Remarks

Before you can clear the hardware buffer, the instrument must be connected to obj with the fopen function. A connected object has a Status property value of open. If you issue clrdevice when obj is disconnected from the instrument, then an error is returned.

You can clear the software input buffer using the flushinput function. You can clear the software output buffer using the flushoutput function.

See Also

Functions

flushinput, flushoutput, fopen

Properties

Status


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