String functions

Great ideas,

I also would like the ability to have an Array of text or being able to extract text from a file.  This is for primarily for error handling.  I have devices with a very large number of possible errors.  More than what the state machine can handle (+ it is not very flexible).

I can sort my error or create Error log by number but then customer has to find code in instruction manual.

So the idea would be to be able to display a text based on an index.  If the Error file was external then it could be easier to deal with and may not tax the memory?  A Spreadsheet could be ideal thus allowing us to maintain the different languages or at least two dimensional array.

As a comment on this post, in IQANscript does have text compare. 

I run into the same issue. I would like to convert 'Project Version' text value into a number so I can send it via J1939 to our telematics system. I cannot.

Have you considered sending it as text, using TPOUT? 

I must match a defined bit mapping, which does not allow so many bytes.

Each character consumes a whole byte.

I have 5 bytes of text and need to fit it into 2 bytes to transmit.

Is it possible to allow the IQAN Simulink toolbox to accept strings as input when compiling the IQAN Simulink model, so that users can customize the string handling logic within Simulink?