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From: pnorbert <pnorbert@ornl.gov>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:14:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #3805 from pnorbert/fix-bpls-string-scalar
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bpls -l  with scalar string variable: print the value (since min/max …

(cherry picked from commit 1949cde67afde04027312603c1d61745eb5e1458)
---
 source/utils/bpls/bpls.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/utils/bpls/bpls.cpp b/source/utils/bpls/bpls.cpp
index 462598d90a..c696690fa0 100644
--- a/source/utils/bpls/bpls.cpp
+++ b/source/utils/bpls/bpls.cpp
@@ -1252,8 +1252,9 @@ int printVariableInfo(core::Engine *fp, core::IO *io, core::Variable<T> *variabl
         if (longopt && !timestep)
         {
             fprintf(outf, " = ");
-            auto mm = variable->MinMax();
-            print_data(&mm.second, 0, adiosvartype, false);
+            T value;
+            fp->Get(*variable, value, adios2::Mode::Sync);
+            print_data(&value, 0, adiosvartype, false);
         }
         fprintf(outf, "\n");