Regular expression in case structure

[malosh]

Hi there you LabVIEW grooves!

I think it would be quite pleasant if a real RegExp could be written directly inside case structure's selectors, when using a string input.

For me that would save a great deal of coding, increase my code readability significantly, and in general - will finally encourage me to implement what I really intended in the first place rather than settling with what I can write in a reasonable time.

This can be extremely useful for decisions based on free-written input user data.

Hope to get a lobby on this one - maybe we can influence the next version!!!

[altenbach]

The right place would be to submit your request to the product suggestion center:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/EDA7C01C684ACB6286256FF0000238D5

Good luck! 🙂

[SteelStonehenge]

Nice Idea.  But I'm not sure you need to wait until the next version of Labview.   I believe this could be written as a VI.    Now you got me all cranked up thinking about this.  I won't get any sleep this weekend.   Thanks a heap! 🙂

eric

[falkpl]

This is a feature I have wanted for a while without needing external vi.  I have been faking it out with using string ranges "AAA"..."AAZ" will work like the regular expression AA[A-Z]  works for very simple strings.