Search 1D Array with wild cards or exact match.

[ClaudioH]

Hi,

My application uses a series of files to configure it self and I need to search in arrays to find which are similar to a given reference.

My solution is to use a for with a Match pattern VI and some logic to do the operation.

I believe that "Search 1D Array" would be faster than this implementation if it had the option to use wild cards ("*" and "?") as "element" input.

Other option would be include a flag "Exact match", by default set to TRUE to behave as is today or FALSE to stop on first occurrence of "element" in the array that contains it somewhere.

For example, if element = "ode" and array element = "model", it should set as a match if Exact match is set to FALSE.

Cheers.

[Mr.Mike]

I think this would be much better as a general search which took in a VI reference.  The VI would take in an element of the type in the array and output a boolean if it matched.   That would allow for searching complex data structures and the equivalent of searching with wild cards in strings.

[Mark_Yedinak]

I prefer Mr. Mike's suggestion as well. This would be much more useful and extend the search capability.

[wevanarsdale]

You might consider using a database to store configuration information.  Databases are quite good at searching by pattern using the LIKE operator.

[Darren]

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