Stopping a For Loop

[Mike227]

How do I stop a for loop with a stop button? I have 2 case structures and 2 while loops inside my for loop.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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@Mike227 wrote:

How do I stop a for loop with a stop button? I have 2 case structures and 2 while loops inside my for loop.

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Change the FOR loop to a WHILE loop.

[odessy27]

select and right click on the for loop, and check conditional terminal.

[Mike227]

Attached is my VI.

I think I need the FOR loop because I use an iteration control. (control off of the N symbol) And I have an auto indexing array feeding in.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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@Mike227 wrote:

Attached is my VI.

I think I need the FOR loop because I use an iteration control. (control off of the N symbol) And I have an auto indexing array feeding in.

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If you stop the FOR loop, then not all the elements array are going to be processed. If that is fine with you, then do it.

[Mike227]

yea, but how would I do that? Ive tried the conditional terminal for the FOR loop, and it then won't write my text to the file.

[crossrulz]

Is there an error being generated?  An error should be the only thing keeping the file from writing.

[Mike227]

There are no errors that I can find. Is there a way to manually find an error?

[altenbach]

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Mike227 wrote:

I think I need the FOR loop because I use an iteration control. (control off of the N symbol) And I have an auto indexing array feeding in.

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Your array is empty, thus the for loop will iterate zero times, no matter how big the number wired to N is.

I would recommmend to exclusively stick to "build path", "strip path" primitives. Dont manipulate entire paths as strings.

Should "test programs" be a folder or part of the filename? Does the folder exist?

If you want to stop at any time, the stop button belongs into the innermost loop.

[altenbach]

Also note that you use an obsolete file open function. But since you wired the start path, it seems that "test programs" is actually a folder name and not part of the desired file name.

Anyway, your upper left code could look as follows.

 

Also note that making a string diagram constant bold will not make the text in the resulting file bold. 😄