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Scan From String Assistance

Hey NI Crew,

Here's a simple one for ya. I'm trying to use the Scan From String to dig through a bunch of data files to find the appropriate files.  I can do it to a certain point.  I'm looking for files that are identified as Passed but also have the .txt extension.  The .txt extension is causing this to not work.  I remove it, and I get all the passed files, but every different type of extension.  What's the magic trick here?  Using LabVIEW 2009, fyi.  So don't send me any VIs beyond that please.

 

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Apply the file extension to the "pattern" input on the "recursive file list" block.

 

Have fun.

 

0xDEAD

 

 

edited to add: In your case "pattern" would be *.txt

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@deceased wrote:

Apply the file extension to the "pattern" input on the "recursive file list" block.

 

Have fun.

 

0xDEAD

 

 

edited to add: In your case "pattern" would be *.txt


If the standard wildcards work then a pattern like ?Passed.txt might work better

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Hmmm... I mean sure if you wanted to do it the easy way. LOL

 

Thank you.

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If you wanted to keep with the Scan From String, you need to use "%[^.]" instead of "%s".  The bracket notation looks for specific characters and the ^ states not the next character.  To this will take all characters up to the period.  The normal %s looks for a white space to stop the scan.

 

But the super easy method is to use the Recursive File List.vi and use "Passed_Report_*.txt" as your pattern.


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