Trying to replace an array in a cluster

[chuck72352]

I have a 1-D array of a type definition with a cluster of 5 elements. One of the elements is an array that I want to replace. Can anyone help me understand how to do that?

Thank you.

[jyang72211]

Hi,

So you have a 5 elements cluster, and one of the element is an array, which is what you would like to replaced? 

Feed that cluster into bundle by name and feed in the new array. 

Yik

[chuck72352]

In my attached VI in my first message I tried to do I believe what you're suggesting and it didn't work.

[Dennis_Knutson · Accepted solution]

It would work better if you used the same data type. You have a numeric array in the cluster and you are trying to replace it with a string array.

[RavensFan]

You're missing a lot of VI's and controls.  So it is difficult to tell exactly what you are doing.

Are you getting an error?  I see an error due to mismatched datatypes where you are trying to feed an array of strings into an array of U8's.

You are also going through a song and dance of converting your 1-D array of clusters into a cluster, then later converting that cluster back into an array.

You need to index out an element of your 1-D array of clusters, replace the cluster element that is a 1-D array of U8's with another 1-D array of U8's using the bundle by name, then use the replace array subset to get that element back into your array.

Are you sure you really need as complicated of a data structure as your are trying to use?

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 03-27-2010 10:27 PM

[chuck72352]

Thank you!

[chuck72352]

The "ncWriteNetmult" function requires the data structure I'm trying to use. It is part of the nican library.