Gets the value of the specified data point.

S# Implementation
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public object GET( 
   string name 
)

Parameters

name

Type: string

The fully-qualified name of the data point.

Return Value

The value of the data point. The value can be numeric or text.
Remarks
This function looks up the named point and returns a structure containing the _members--IVqt properties.

The Value field of a point will always be coerced to one of Double, Int32 or String before it is returned. Any property of the returned point structure can be referenced as a member variable. For example, to reference the Timestamp property of a point, the function could be called like this: GET("DataPid:PID1.Mv").Timestamp

Unlike VAL which returns the value of a data point, GET returns the data point as an object. This enables you to access other attributes via two interfaces: IVqt and IDataTable.

Example
This example illustrates how to retrieve a data point object, determine whether the point contains tabular data, and output a message that shows the number of table rows and the xml representation of the structured data.
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 var vqt = GET("Northwind:AllEmployees");
 
 if (vqt.TableData != null)
   string.Format("{0} contains {1} rows of tablular data.\n\n{2}",
     vqt.PointName, vqt.TableData.Rows.Count, vqt.Value);
 else
   string.Format("{0} is not tabular data.", vqt.PointName);
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