Case structures and regular expressions.

[Bryan]

I think it would be beneficial to have case structures able to select a case based on matching of a regular expression when a string is wired to the switching terminal.

Right now, they can accept ranges of values for one case... i.e. "a...c" will accept any character from a-b. It would be neat to be able to type in something like "foo*, *bar" and have it accept things like "foo, foobar, foo bar, lowbar, low bar" etc.

[JohnRH]

I think it would be beneficial to have case structures able to select a case based on matching of a regular expression when a string is wired to the switching terminal.

Right now, they can accept ranges of values for one case... i.e. "a...c" will accept any character from a-b.  It would be neat to be able to type in something like "foo*, *bar" and have it accept things like "foo, foobar, foo bar, lowbar, low bar" etc.

837[/snapback]

Great idea! Especially considering the fact that other text based languages have this ability!

[Mike Ashe]

I agree, great idea, but I hope you're not holding your breath. Creating a subVI to do the expression parsing and choose from a list of the CASE strings is more likely to get done before christmas.