Insert file into VI

[canyon]

My professor gave me a project where I have some fake test data and I'm supposed to perform a transform on it. It's a text file but he wants us to insert the values directly into labview so all he does is hit play and Labview takes care of the rest.

I've been able to get labview to read the text file by prompting for it but I don't know how to "phyically" put the raw data into labview without it needed the external text file as a reference. I've searched around but had little luck.

Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

[LV_Pro · Accepted solution]

If it is just a text file, open it in "notepad" or other editor, copy the text, create a string constant on your block diagram and paste the text into it. Viola! You now have "the file" in your vi, at least it's data.

[canyon]

Worked perfectly! Thank you so much. I could have saved hours of work if I came here first