LabVIEW
Need some advices to merge two array-manipulation functions
Solved!
Hi guys!
Thanks to Johnsold, Helmut O'Brian and Jcarmody, who helped me through a complicated (for me, the LV noob) string function, I got further on with my project and I'm very close to an end.
As I descibed here I wanted to search an array for words combined with -, i.e. C1-C10. From the help I got there I was able to do so. I also learned a few tricks and was able to do the following stuff:
Original Array: New array:
R1 R1
R2 R2
C1-C3 C1
K1 C2
C3
K1
I was also able to to this:
Original array: New array:
R1 R1
R2,R4,R7 R2
C1 R4
K1 R7
C1
K1
I was also able to combine those two functions:)
Now back to my problem.
Until now this was just an 1D array I worked with. Actually it's a 2D array I read from a .CSV file:
As you can see there are some places where stuff is combined with either - or comma. I need to expand the first column as described above and as solved in the thread I mentioned. Done! No problem. I extract the first column into and 1D array. Then I expand it. Now I need to put it back into the original array and also expand the whole thing.
It should then look something like this:
Then I only need to copy the line from the R6 position and paste it into the blank fields:
I have attached two VIs below. Open the main.vi first. Then copy.vi after. I have tried to describe the problem there also. You can see what I have accomplished and what's missing.
Tasks:
1. Put the expanded column back into the original array and expand the whole thing.
2. Copy the needed lines.
In the main.vi I do the 1D expansion, but I have problem with the 2D array expansion. In copy.vi I manage to copy the lines. So that part is done.
I basically need some advices on the expansion I do and how to get the 2D array also expanded. Since I haven't got so much experience I feel most comfortable to work with 1D arrays. But I can't seem to get any further with this 1D -> 2D expansion.
I also can't really seem to find a smart way to implement my line-copy-function into the main.vi.
P.S the attached VIs are made in LV2010.
Luckily I can attend some Core courses at NI here in Norway, but until then I'm still self-learning and I think sometimes I try to do stuff that is way out of my league:(
I don't want to be rude and bump this thread, but I was able to make a better line-copy-function.
I think that solved the problem of implementing it into the main.vi.
All I need now is to merge the 1D array with the 2D array and make the expansion:)
I don't know what I did, but it works now:)
Thanks for the help, Even!
You're welcome Even!
🙂
Have attached the file if someone wants to see what I did.
