Assigning string values to each numerical value of an array

[jrkh8er20]

I'm working on a project to create an "opening hand simulator" for a Magic: the Gathering deck. In my head, the idea is that I create a VI to shuffle a 60-card deck and display the top seven cards.

Well, I have the first part working fine - I have a VI that creates an array with values from 0 to 59, randomizes it, and then displays the first 7 values of the array. In other words, I hit Run and it spits out seven random numbers from 0-59 with no duplicates, just like if you shuffle a 60-card deck and draw seven cards.

But I want to go a step further and assign a string value (the name of a Magic card) to each numerical value in the array - so, 0 = "Island", 1 = "Lightning Bolt", and so on. That way when I hit Run, I will get a display of seven card names instead of seven numbers.

So, how would I go about 1) assigning a string value of my choice to each of the 60 numerical values in this array, and 2) display the values of this randomized array as the aforementioned string values?

[Wolleee · Accepted solution]

Several options here, but the easiest i see is to use the numerical values to localize an array of strings. So have a separate array of strings, and use the numerical values to index the array and pull the string at that index value.

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[jrkh8er20]

That worked perfectly, thanks!

[rlages]

hi, taking advantage of your suggestion... what if i have an array of a hundred strings but in my front painel i just want to display 4 strings that will be selected automatically. in my cases the strings in my front painel will be alarms, so i have a hundred possible alarm messages that shall be displayed when the corresponding boolean is set true.

thank you.

[Wolleee]

Can you pose a snippet of your most recent code? Add some comments to Portray what you're trying to accomplish. I'm just a little confused what you're trying to do. 

[rlages]

Hi, i am sending an example describing what i want to do. And rembering that i don't know if my approach is the best one, so if you have a solution using other elements it will be welcome.

thank you in advance.

[Wolleee]

I would try something like this. You had several alarm elements, i just put those into an array, arrays are generally much easier to work with than several of the same type elements.  

[rlages]

Thank you very much. It worked perfectly.

[JÞB]

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@Wolleee wrote:

I would try something like this. You had several alarm elements, i just put those into an array, arrays are generally much easier to work with than several of the same type elements.  

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Use an enum type def and those strings can travel places without having to update the string array constants in several places each time you add a new alarm

(Look ma no case struscture to hide code in)

[rlages]

Thank you too, i'll try. I never saw this conditional tunel, looks interesting.