How do I place text vertically in a string indicator? See description below (code attached).

[GRCK5000]

This is what I'm getting when I'm running the code:

This below is what I would like to get instead.

How to achieve this?

[ZYOng · Accepted solution]

Just simply add an EOL constant to it.

[GRCK5000]

Great! Thank you, ZYOng!

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[paul_a_cardinale]

I'm working on an XControl that's a string indicator with changeable vertical orientation.  I'll post it when it's ready.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi GRCK,

so you want to interleave the chars in your string with the same number of LF chars?

Try this:

The main part is the Interleave1DArray function, the stuff around that is just to create the strings you want…

[GRCK5000]

Thank you GerdW! This is awesome! It's always a good thing to learn different ways of doing thing.

[BertMcMahan]

Depending on what you're doing, you might want to throw in a "Trim Whitespace.vi" at the end. Both solutions so far have an extra newline after the last character.

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@BertMcMahan wrote:

Depending on what you're doing, you might want to throw in a "Trim Whitespace.vi" at the end. Both solutions so far have an extra newline after the last character.

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Or just put a Decrement function after the String Length.

[GerdW]

Hi Paul,

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:Or just put a Decrement function after the String Length.

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Interleave1DArray might give "unexpected" results for input arrays of different length…

(Btw. my snippet only works with plain ASCII. Handling Unicode strings the same way might also introduce "unexpected" results…)

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi Paul,

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:Or just put a Decrement function after the String Length.

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Interleave1DArray might give "unexpected" results for input arrays of different length…

(Btw. my snippet only works with plain ASCII. Handling Unicode strings the same way might also introduce "unexpected" results…)

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You're right; it won't work correctly (because the input arrays are truncated to the length of the shortest one.