How to sort text file into array and back to string

[FedeSAE]

Hi,

I had a VI that was saving CAN messages based in their ID into 4 different files.

The VI was too complex to operate with my PDA so I had to use a VI that would dump all the messages in one single text file.

Now I am trying to create a VI that will open that file, read it, read each line and perform the sorting based on the ID.

I am having difficulties because if I open the file it is read as line of strings and I cannot find the right VI that will look one line at a time.

I tried to convert it to an array using pick a line, byte to array but it is not working.

My idea was to get the text file into a 1D array and then use a for loop with indexing to do the sorting.

Is there a way to look at each line consecutely?

Thanks a lot,

Fede

[FedeSAE]

This is the text file in question

[altenbach]

There are many ways to do this. Sorry, I am not familiar with these types of CAN messages, so I am assuming that the ID is the first three digit number after the time.

If the ID is always 3 digits starting at offset 17, you could do something like in the attached quick demo (only sorts 100 and 101, add more cases as needed). In a real program, you might want to open the four output files, the append to the correct one depending in the ID at each iteration.

[FedeSAE]

Thanks for the help.

I did not think about scan for tokens.

It works really well.

I am going to add 3 more cases and the saving structure