How to Search an Array of Strings Using LabVIEW

[david.bolt]

 Overview

This VI relates to how to programmatically search a string in an array of strings.

 Description

You can use this VI to search the first element of a string array that contains a specific substring. You can also choose to make that search case insensitive. This VI is composed by a conditional for loop that contains "match regular expression" and the exit condition is if the match regular expression function detect a substring, after that there is a case structure that manage the element not found case or show the element that contains the substring. 

 Requirements

• LabVIEW 2012 (or compatible)

 Steps to Implement or Execute Code

1. Open the VI
2. Insert a string array
3. Insert the string to search for
4. Run the VI
5. Pulse Ignore case to do a case insensitive search

Additional Information or References
VI Block Diagram

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