Adding into middle of string. I want to have a string that entered as 1-5 to read out as 1 2 3 4 5. Is there a easy way to do this?

[GerdW]

Hi Hobart,

1) parse the string to get start and end number (split string at "-"-sign, convert strings to numbers).
2)  make a for loop with iteration count  (end-start+1), wire the "i" to the border of the for loop.
3) add "start" to the resulting array of numbers
4) convert to string by "array to spreadsheet string" using space as separator

You're done!

There are other ways as well, but this one is straight-forward.


Message Edited by GerdW on 01-25-2008 08:57 PM

[jon_mcbee]

Hello,

See the attached vi for an example of one way to solve this problem.  It is easy to modify if your formatting is different than how I did it.

Cheers!

[GerdW]

Hi jmcbee,

in your example I would replace the string formatting inside the loop with a single "format into string" using " %d" as format string.
Your example also relys on 1 as the first number of the range...

[jon_mcbee]

GerdW is correct so if you use my VI as a starting point be sure to implement what GerdW wrote in the above post.  That is what I get for being quick and dirty.  See attached vi for a better place to start than what I posted above! (GerdW, do you think it is best to keep as Integer Array until outside of the loop completely, it seems to me that this is the way to go but I am up for other ideas!)

Cheers!


Message Edited by jmcbee on 01-25-2008 01:09 PM

[jon_mcbee]

Made another mistake.  Use this one instead.  I forgot to flip the second number back around so for 100 it was seeing 001.  Now this is fixed.

[jon_mcbee]

I do not know if it is more efficient to convert to a string inside the for loop or to wait and convert the entire integer array into a spreadsheet string outside the for loop.  Does anybody know which is better concerning memory efficiency?


Message Edited by jmcbee on 01-25-2008 01:31 PM

[Hobart]

Thanks. At least I wasn't way off. Thanks again.