search string in a vi inside a llb

[thitchen007]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a string in a vi/ vi's inside a llb, I looked online and only searching-for-vi-name is possible. I've read over the help files but I don't really understand what I'm suppose to do so can someone please let me know if there's a way to search a specific string in a vi/ vi's inside a llb file. Many thanks.

[P@Anand]

You don't have the direct option (May be there, Am not sure) but you can do that by using the vi scripting. But you will not be able to build that as an application, you can use it as a vi.

[rolfk · Accepted solution]

As Anan already pointed out, you will have to use LabVIEW functions to enumerate the contents of the LLB, load each VI and use then VI scripting on it to find the string. Trying to do that on the LLB file directly is completely useless, since on the VI level LabVIEW nowadays uses the zlib deflate algorithme to compress most parts inside of it, and the LLB uses also some (less fancy) compression algorithme to compress each VI resource too.

And since VI scripting is a development only feature you can indeed not really use this option in a built application.

[thitchen007]

Thanks for both of you.

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