My question is in several parts:
APPLICATION: My application continually writes and appends data to a Process File (text 2D). The operator can choose to process these files at any time. When the appplication starts, I read all of the relavent files so that they are current. As the process continues, additional records are APPENDED to the file (new rows with 4 elements comma delimited in each row). In order to ensure that I have a complete list of all the file records I need to do the following:
1) Read the 2D array. I do not want the file continually read, only when the operator elects to update records. If I put the READ FILE in a case structure, the records are not kept when I release the Update Record button
2) I really need to load the array into memors inside the case structure but do not know the appropriate tool to use in LabVIEW 8.6
3) I am experimenting with ARRAY TO SPREADSHEET function, with ARRAY TO SPREADSHEET STRING and DECIMATED 1D array, but this last function does not like being connected to a STRING array even though the description for this function states that it can be used with "any array type".
Questions:
1) How do I read array data into memory so I can read the file inside a Case Statement and not continually read the HDrive
2) How do I change the TYPE of an Decimated Array function from double to string
...thanks for the help
