Create 2D array of 1D aray of String

[LVCoder]

LOLS.

 So, is it right to say that my algortihm is much eficient than the expert coder at optimizing algorithms ?? 

Ritesh

[joshuatree]

hey all,

   i've been fighting this beast for a day now, and just came across this post...  i'm in a similar situation with reading data from a file and trying to have a 2d array of variable length string arrays.  i didn't see that u addressed it directly but i'm coming to the conclusion that labview will truncate the string arrays to form a nice clean rectangle .

Is that why your using the 2d array of clusters?

Just when i think i'm gettin the hang of this....  i hit a snag like this...  bleh! 

[smercurio_fc]

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joshuatree wrote:

hey all,

i'm coming to the conclusion that labview will truncate the string arrays to form a nice clean rectangle .

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True. In LabVIEW 2D arrays must be rectangular. 

[altenbach]

The size of a 2D array is fully described by exactly two numbers: (1) the number of rows and (2) the number of columns. (rectangular!). The size of each column is the number of rows and vice versa.

(Of course the string in each element can be any lenght.)

For non-rectangular array structures, this would not be enough of course, so it cannot be done! You would need more complicated structures, e.g. an array where each element is a cluster containing a 1D array.