How do I copy the string portion of an enum into the string portion of a cluster?

[Dark Hollow]

I want to do this for the an entire array of clusters.  I'm trying to use a for loop.  Can't figure out how to parse the string portion of the enum into the string portion of the cluster.

Alternatively, I'd be happy if I could figure out some way to tie the enum to the array of clusters, but I figure that gets problematic.

DH

[Ben]

format into string

[Dark Hollow]

OK, let's say that the enumerated type has N elements.  I want to initialize an N element array of strings.  How do I reference each string in the enumerated type to get to each string?

DH

[RavensFan]

Use the "Strings[ ]" property node on the enum to get an array of strings of the elements.

[nathand · Accepted solution]

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@Dark Hollow wrote:

OK, let's say that the enumerated type has N elements.  I want to initialize an N element array of strings.  How do I reference each string in the enumerated type to get to each string?

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Easy way to do this is to use GetNumericInfo.vi, part of the Variant library, found in vi.lib\utility\VariantDataType\GetNumericInfo.vi.  Wire your enumeration to the Variant input; one of the outputs is an array of the strings in the enumerated type.

The more complicated way is a for loop, in which you typecast the iterator terminal value to the enumerated type, then use Format Value.  You can get the maximum value of the enumeration by casting 0 to the enumerated type, then decrementing; cast that back to a numeric and add one to get the right value to wire to the N terminal.

EDIT: just thought I'd add, since RavensFan's reply popped up while I was writing mine - I don't like the Strings[] approach because it doesn't work on RT targets, and I lost a lot of time once due to this trying to figure out why my code wouldn't run properly on an RT system but worked great on my development computer.