Hi Lacher,
Would it be possible to read this as a fixed-width ASCII file? By that I mean that the values for channel 2 always start on the same character number in each row, with the same being true for all other channels as well (Excel has a fixed-width import option). If so, then you can use DirectAccessChannels to efficiently load the multiple values from channel 2 on each line (provided it's always the same number of multiple values). This you would specify with the property:
FixedWidthBlock.Channels(2).Formatter.SampleWidth = 3
If you can't read this as a fixed-width ASCII file, because the ";" delimiter does not always fall at the same location in each row, then you'll just have to parse the values manually with a VBScript loop inside the DataPlugin. This will work but will be much slower than using a DirectAccessChannel.
Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments
