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?

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. [edit] Example:

LabVIEW

Assigning string values to each numerical value of an array

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@JÞB wrote:

@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.

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)

I originally was going to suggest this, minus the enum, but i wasnt sure what version that conditional terminal became available I should have just dont a quick search. Much clearner code though.