Maps are a recent addition to LabVIEW. They consist of two items, keys, and their associated values; by default, the key is string and value is numeric, though they can be changed to any data type supported by LabVIEW. In this tutorial we will provide a paragraph to our example code and the code will then do an analysis of word count of the provided text; we will also be coding an alternative, but an equivalent method, for achieving the same functionality but using the difficult route of LabVIEW's string manipulation functions. We will learn how to store key-value pairs in a set, how to selectively delete those, we will also be learning the use of other LabVIEW provided string processing functions in the process; all in an easy to understand and step-by-step manner.
