searching through a table

[lfoitek]

hello,

what i have is a table with binary strings.  i am seaching through the table to find matching strings that the user inputs.  i use a for loop but i need a way to do a few options.

1. i know there is a way to use the for loop without having to specify a "N" value but is the way i am doing it sufficient.
2.  my program is not highlighting all the occurences, it is skipping some occurences
3.  search for 1st occurence
4  Go to next occurence
5.  Find all occurences
6.  an option to clear the table and the table selections.

i attached a vi that does the searching but that's about it.  thank you in advance

[altenbach]

SInce you don't know how many elements will match, you must use a while loop, not a FOR loop.

Simply reshape the array to a 1D, the use search 1D array until you run out of elements. Attached is a quick sketch (LAbVIEW 8.0), see if you can take it from there. It also shows a way to reset all table backgrounds to white. 😄

(There are many other ways to do this.)

[lfoitek]

thank you for the help

[jac187]

If the number of matching elements are known, how would this VI be arranged with a For Loop?

[altenbach]

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@jac187 wrote:
If the number of matching elements are known, how would this VI be arranged with a For Loop?

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1. replace the while loop with a FOR loop
2. wire the known item number to N
3. remove the case structure, leaving only the code in the default case.
4. everything else stays the same.