Search for a Text in VIs

[Ramin_E]

I am trying to write a VI tool to search other VIs for a particular text. This can currently be done from LabVIEW's menu Edit -> Find...
Anybody know how I can hook into this feature of LabVIEW?
Thanks,
R.E.

[johnsold]

Long before that Find feature was available I wrote a VI that reads any file as a string of characters. A VI is stored in binary, but the text of labels and other text is in there. Just use the string functions to search through the file.

Lynn

[tst]

I'm fairly certain that functionality isn't accesible. There are some search VI in the LabVIEW\Project directory, but those are for the Search VIs on Disk tool.

A pretty terrible way of doing this yourself is using the VI method Export VI Strings, then read the strings from the file and search them. Of course, it won't take you to the string itself, or do anything else of usefulness.