Find bold, italic and underline character in a string

[J-M]

I have a VI for finding bold, italic and underline sequence of character in a string but it is very slow.  I want to speed up this VI, any idea?

Jean-Marc

Message Edited by J-M on 03-05-2010 08:09 AM

Message Edited by J-M on 03-05-2010 08:12 AM

[vt92]

If you only want to search for whole words, you can separate the strings (using the /s as the delimiter).  This makes the process faster.  The attached vi is an example.

[Darin.K · Accepted solution]

You are experiencing the joy of Property Nodes, each time you access one, LV feels the urge to update the control that it references.  You can speed things up considerably (factor of 4 on my machine) by Defering Panel Updates on the VI while running the subVI.  I could probably tweak another factor of two with the code, but this simple fix goes a long ways.

[J-M]

Thanks VT92 and DarinK, a combination of your solutions  has resolved my problem.

Jean-Marc

[J-M]

For those who might be interested (LV86).

Jean-Marc

Message Edited by J-M on 03-06-2010 09:55 AM