Data Structure: UNION
UNION
is a user-defined data structure whose members usually have different data types and sizes.
The members of the instance of a UNION
data type all reserve the same memory space. All members have the same address offset and share the memory. The memory requirement is determined by the largest member.
A UNION
variable stores the value of exactly one member. The memory contains the last assigned value. This means that the memory is used efficiently.
For more information, see: Object: DUT
Type declaration
Syntax:
TYPE <identifier>
UNION
<member name> : <data type> := <initialization> ;
END_UNION
END_TYPE
| Declaration of a member of an elementary data type Any number of declarations can follow, but at least 2. |
| Optional |
Type declaration: U_VAR_12
TYPE U_VAR_12: UNION wVar1: WORD; byVar2 : BYTE; END_UNION END_TYPE
Type declaration: U_INT_ID
TYPE U_INT_ID: UNION iVar: INT; dVar : DINT; END_UNION END_TYPE
Type declaration: U_EFFICIENT
TYPE U_EFFICIENT UNION wMember : WORD; dwMember : DWORD; strMember : STRING := 'A'; END_UNION END_TYPE
Variable declaration
Instantiation/declaration of a variable of a UNION
data type:
<variable name> : <name UNION type> := <initialization> ;
| Optional |
| Initialization in detail: The assignment operator is followed by the assignment of the initial value to the member in round brackets. |
TYPE U_AB: UNION lrA : LREAL; liB : LINT; END_UNION END_TYPE
Variable declaration with initialization
PLC_PRG PROGRAM VAR uabVAR_1 : U_AB := (lrA := LREAL#1.5); uabVAR_2 : U_AB := (liB := LINT#1); END_VAR
Variable declaration in PLC_PRG
with data type U_EFFICIENT
PLC_PRG PROGRAM VAR uefficient_1 : U_EFFICIENT := (strMember := 'A'); END_VAR
Implementation: PLC_PRG
uefficient_1.wMember := 16#000A;
When uefficient_1
is written to a member of the variable, this affects all members of the variable.