LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Hi,

I'm bit afraid to post this idea, because it seems to be I could overlook something.

There is no function which do the proper rounding (with 5 a a last digit as a hard limit) as below:

If the last digit is 5 o greater round up, otherwise round down.

An example:

(to simplify I use only one digit after dot)

0.1 -> 0

0.4 -> 0

0.5 -> 1

0.9 -> 1

1.1 -> 1

1.4 -> 1

1.5 -> 2

1.9 -> 2

2.1 -> 2

etc.

Now to satisfy this function you have to do coding like this (just for numbers with one digit after the dot):

Why to complicate so simple thing???

I have several times found myself using variants to create various types of sorted lookup tables data sets. (Variants "sort" attributes/records by the name automatically, taking a performance hit when creating/adding to the variant, but wicked fast to retrieve a named attribute, and when getting a list of all named attributes they are returned "sorted".)

Now, in many/most of those scenarios, I find myself wishing I could just name the attribute with a numeric input without the hassle of converting the numeric to a string.

For example, if you read the file-property of all files in a folder tree and put various information for each file into a cluster (e.g. size, last modified date, name etc.), this cluster would become the "attribute" or "record" that you add to a variant for quick lookup later. Now, of course you have many ways to name the attribute(s) depending on what you want to do. In one case, you may want to retrieve file attributes based on the oldest (or newest) "last modified" time.. currently one way to do this is to "format into string" the "last modified" time stamp data and use that as the attribute name. If you are careful with how you format it to string, the sorted string list will come back oldest to newest (e.g. format it as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to get a decimal string that sorts oldest (least) to newest (latest). (Note that when getting lists of files from LabVIEW, the order of the returned files does not appear to be sorted by "modified" or "created" dates.)

It would be nice if instead the "name" input would support usage of numeric inputs directly. If this was implemented at a low enough level, then the string conversion would not only be hidden from us (users), but potentially be completely removed as I picture the "name" at a low enough level is just a unique identifier anyway..  If this could be made to allow the "name" terminal to accept time-stamp data types, strings, I/U32 and DBL I would be very happy indeed!

Please discuss in comments if this is good, bad, impossible, possible etc. etc.

Thanks,

Q

Hi

Suppose we have a big code in that a part of the code need not be executed ( still obeying the data flow).There is no option to do that .Those who are familiar with Matlab /Python  know there is acommenting option .Once commended thet statements will not get executed.The problem with LabVIEW now is in abid code if we want to try if a node need not get executed we have to delete it then claerind of wire will come.If we want to include it again we still have to do thwe same thing.If something is there ( may be a rectangle) when drawn around  a particular node keeps it away from the execution it will make development/testing  easy