Programmatic legend plot name display

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I'm writing a VI that displays multiple wave forms that are calculated from data that is read in from multiple .csv files. Each data file provides data for 32 plots. I have it set up to read in anywhere from 1 to 10 data files, and am using "strip path" to name the data in the legend via property node "ActivePlot -> PlotName" in a loop. So I have anywhere from 32 to 320 plots on my xy graph with anywhere from 1-10 plot names(32 like filed plots get the same name).
The Problem:
I only need to the display one plot name for each data file in the legend (i.e. plot 0 for each data file), but the legend is linear in that it displays plot names in the exact order of plotting. Outside of completely reordering the plot array, does anyone know of a more elegant way of coercing the legend to display only specific plots? I can't find anything in property nodes that does this and haven't stumbled on this problem in the forum (hopefully I didn't miss it).
Thanks in Advance!

Although you are not using the waveform plots you could still employ a similar approach.
Your data is an array of clusters where each cluster is a data set and a set of properties like string name, int color, enum y-axis....
when you lopt your data, use a subset of the array containing only the clusters you wish to plot, then use these extra fileds to adjust the plot index properties. Although this requires programming, you can make it very scalable (ie add new mata data fields to your cluster and add code to use them) and use the power of the original plot ledgend (that has huge number of features that would be hard to replicate).
Paul Falkenstein
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