Hello,
We love to see people catch the LabVIEW spirit and anything we can do to help
you through the initial learning process is our pleasure.
As KC suggested saving the file as a .csv is a good idea,
you can also save it as a txt file and open it with Excel specifying a delimiter
for the columns.
There is a really good example you can find in the LabVIEW
example finder if you search for the keyword ‘file’, the example is called “Write
to Text File.vi”. They use a Get date/time String to record the time when data
is acquired.
I have attached a simple Write to File picture of a VI that
takes a random number and writes it to a file. When I run the VI, a popup asks
me what I want to call the file. The first part writes the heathers on the
columns and inside of the for loop I save the data. Underneath the block diagram
is a picture of the output file when I specify the number of samples to be five.
If you want your file to be on a very specific format, you
can create a template file, read it in LabVIEW, and then add your data to it
and save it to a new file.
Hope this can get you started with your program.
There are a lot of good tutorials online on how to
get started using LabVIEW. Here is the link to a three hour
introduction course:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/learningcenter.nsf/03f7c60f17aad210862567a90054a26c/60c2782788a811c986256cd50001a0a6?OpenDocument&node=200067_us
We are also comming out with LabVIEW 8 in November and we have a program called LabVIEW Standard Service Program
(SSP) that allows you to get automatic upgrades and updates. Please let
me know if you are interested in knowing more about it.
Good luck,
Tica Taveras
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
