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[flarn2006]

I was fooling around with variants earlier by flattening them to strings, editing the bytes, and converting them back, then creating constants from them with scripting. By editing a string variant, I was able to make this:

This is a fixed-length string. If I right-click it, it gives me an option called "Set String Length", which isn't there on normal strings. It lets me set fixed, bounded, or variable (which changes it to a regular string and removes the menu option), as well as setting a length. I tried Googling it, and I couldn't find anything about it. I also can't find anything in LabVIEW's help files.
Can anyone from NI enlighten me as to what this is for? Is it some kind of hidden data type that's still being tested? I wouldn't find that hard to believe, considering the Set String Length dialog looks like it was quickly thrown together (no offense!) Is this used anywhere, and is there any way to create this other than hacking variants or VI files?

[mike5]

This is a fixed-length string. If I right-click it, it gives me an option called "Set String Length", which isn't there on normal strings. It lets me set fixed, bounded, or variable (which changes it to a regular string and removes the menu option), as well as setting a length. I tried Googling it, and I couldn't find anything about it. I also can't find anything in LabVIEW's help files.

It is in the help file if you know what you're looking for
http://zone.ni.com/r...pe_descriptors/

See section titled String, Path, and Picture Data Types.

Br, Mike

[Prabhakant Patil]

Just check the following link.

https://decibel.ni.c.../docs/DOC-16791

You can extract the string limit form this

regards
Prabhakant

[flarn2006]

It is in the help file if you know what you're looking for
http://zone.ni.com/r...pe_descriptors/

See section titled String, Path, and Picture Data Types.

Br, Mike

Oh okay, thanks. That type descriptor thing will probably be useful when editing variants. But I'm still kind of disappointed that I didn't discover something that hadn't been released.

[Prabhakant Patil]

I also not find this kind bounded thing related to the string.
Thats why I develoed this code to Limit the string for the decided character

Prabhakant