Case Structure and String

Hello everyone.
I'm having some problems with my VI on Labview. I have as input a String that have in sequence: "Number of Sample/X Value/Y Value/Z Value", each of them separated by a comma. In the serial port I receive a loop of 500 samples from an accelerometer.
I'd like to have Labview receive the values only when the String "Number of Sample" is 0 and graph them until the 499th sample is send and discard the data when is different from 0.
My problem is the Case Structure, I can't manage to send data when the string is 0 and discard the data when is different from 0.
I've attached my VI, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Serial Port String.vi ‏17 KB

Well, you appear to have LabVIEW 2013.  Did you know about the Conditional Tunnels that were indtroduced in 2012 and improved in 2013?  a quick mod to your code is attached.
There are other opportinities to improve that code but, I'm assuming its only part of a larger vi (and a BD clean-up is in order)  Comments can also help make your code more readable
Jeff
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