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ROS Subscriber Listner String Message

asked 2017-01-28 04:13:57 -0500

newbieros gravatar image

updated 2017-01-29 04:32:17 -0500

gvdhoorn gravatar image

this is the subscriber node from ros tutorials:

void chatterCallback(const std_msgs::String::ConstPtr& msg) 
{
  ROS_INFO("I heard: [%s]", msg->data.c_str());
}

My string array consists of msg which is shown in image, Now i need to access a particular element in the msg (message consists first time and next CAN message, I want to use particularly CAN.ID whic is arrays second element) any suggestion. thanks in advance

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First: std_msgs/String is a very bad choice for this, as it has no semantics whatsoever. a String is not the same as a CAN frame, even though both consists of a 'string' of bytes.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-01-28 05:50:44 -0500 )edit

Second: if possible, see if you can reuse something that already exists. It could save you a lot of effort.

Perhaps ros_canopen can do what you need.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-01-28 05:51:21 -0500 )edit

I am using some CAN USB interface, where I am using those receive and transmit nodes which are already existed for this hardware type. So the message that they have used here is std_msgs/String.

newbieros gravatar image newbieros  ( 2017-01-28 22:01:58 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-01-29 04:31:14 -0500

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updated 2017-01-29 04:34:14 -0500

C++'s std::string class provides an indexing operator implementation that lets you access individual characters in the string. See std::string::operator[] for details.

In your particular case, you could do something like:

size_t my_index = ...;
char the_byte = msg->data[my_index];

Now the_byte contains the char at position my_index in msg->data (which is of type std::string (wiki/msg)).

As I wrote in my comment on your OP though: std_msgs/String is really not a good message to use for interfacing with CAN wrappers (or for storing byte buffers in, period).

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Note btw that this is not something that is ROS specific at all. It's a basic C++ question.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-01-29 04:33:56 -0500 )edit

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