Introduce data binding/handling mechanism for arrays

[MimiKLM]

Hi,

Sometimes I can find difficult to access arrays using indexes. Although straightforward it can be difficult to maintain in certain situations, like calibration data for a lot of frequencies. Lets imagine you have a table of sixty calibration factors per frequency and forty frequencies, generated by third party software to the excel file.

It would improve accessibility if we could name columns and rows and use their names instead/along with the indexes.

We can access the array data like AnArray[4][6] now. In this idea we could access the data like that: AnArray["63dB”]["125MHz"].

When we would like to import the data using property loader it would be easier to access the data with defined names of colums and rows rather than indexes. (data binding)

[RavensFan]

If you use rings or enums to associate a name with a number, then you can use the ring or enum to index the 2-D array.

[MimiKLM]

Do you mean rings & enums in TestStand???

[crossrulz]

I wish: Support for Creation of Enumerated Type Variables

[MimiKLM]

Familiar with that topic. That's why '???' 🙂

[dug9000]

You can create an array of arrays to be able to index them by name like you are asking.

1) Create an array of containers.

2) Change the types of the elements in the container to be arrays of containers as well.

3) Then change the elements of those arrays to be the datatype you desire for the end result of the indexing.

4) Change the names of the elements to correspond to the names you want to index them with.

5) You can now do things like Locals.myArray["name1"]["name2"] in an expression at least.

Creating the arrays of arrays can be done manually, but it might be easier to do programmatically if you have a lot of elements.

Hope this helps,

-Doug

[MimiKLM]

dug9000,

Nice workaround.

However it would be good to have the functionality of renaming columns and rows to be build in TS natively.

[WireWeaver]

I'm declining this idea due to lack of community support.