Open .csv file in Excel

[sebster]

If I double click a .csv file in Windows Explorer, then Excel runs and the file is opened.

Is it possible to get LabVIEW to do this?

The problem is, I don't know which version of Excel will be installed, and I also need to accomodate future versions.

Everything I've found with a search seems use to system_exec.vi with a constant pointing to the location (in c:\program files\microsoft office....etc) of a particular version of Excel

So what I want is to have a button which fires an event which takes the specified .csv file and runs whatever version of Excel is installed to open the file.

[Miha_Vitorovic]

start file.csv will start whatever application is associated with CSV files.

Br, Miha

[Miha_Vitorovic · Accepted solution]

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@Miha_Vitorovic wrote:

start file.csv will start whatever application is associated with CSV files.

Br, Miha

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Oh, right. You will most probably need to start cmd.exe to do this: something like

cmd.exe /c "start c:\path\file.csv"

[sebster]

Oooooooh almost.

It's on the right track, but, as is explained here, there needs to be a further pair of quotes in the command line.

So it actually needs something like cmd.exe /c start "" "c:\path\file.csv"

If the extra quotes aren't there then it opens a command prompt window with the path and filename as the window title (WHY???)

But using START is the correct solution, so I'm going to credit you with that.

Thanks.