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.