"Search 1D Array" with "Found?" output

[FranzS]

The „Search 1D Array“ primitive should have a Boolean output “Found?”

[FranzS]

[altenbach]

That seems redundant to me. I most of my uses, the output is wired to a case structure (one case "-1" and the other "Default") so converting to a boolean is not necessary anyway.

(Alternatively, you could also suggest an error output that gives an error if no matching element was found, but I don't think we need that either).

[AristosQueue (NI)]

It's an ease of use thing to add that terminal. Since that's a primitive, if it were unwired, it could generate absolutely zero code and be identical to today's primitive. There's no technical reason not to do this and I can see a small improvement in diagram work (create a case structure for a Boolean is right by default; create a case structure for the index requires you to set up the pages of the case structure as "..-1" and "Defauld").

I'll add my kudos.

[altenbach]

Well, if we decide to add more output terminals, i'd probably have more use for an "offset past match", which is the "index of element + 1".

It is needed if we need to find all occurences in a loop. Now that's a real "ease of use" thing. 😮 (related idea). Of course the problem is that is is easy to accidentally wire to the wrong output, causing incorrect results.

As I said, I am pretty happy with the limited current function. 😄