I'm developing a VI that reads a text file and does a manipulation on the data it reads. The VI does the following: First, it reads all the ASCII characters from a text file, converts them to 8-bit words, until EOF occurs. Then I do some simple conversion to each byte. The result is that each bit entry of the byte now gives 2 3-bit entries, making a total of 16 3-bit values returned for each byte within the original array. For example, when I read element #0 of the byte array, I get the byte value of 1011000. My VI then converts this to 16 seperate 3-bit values. I can do the conversion just fine. My pro
blem is figuring out how to put these 16 elements into an array to be written out of my 6534 card. I know how to do the DIO write part, but the problem is how do I combine the 16 elements into an array for thousands of bytes read from the text file? Also, the size of the file that I read is unknown until it is read, so I may have to output many sucessive outputs as described above. The first element read would give 16 3-bit elements for the new array, the second byte read would give another 16 3-bit elements and so on upto N values in the original array. Any ideas ?
