Reading Biopac's Acqknowledge file format

[aduley]

I am trying to understand how to read a particular type of file format. I do not understand how to read and go about planning a VI that will parse the data file into ASCII. I have attached the file format instruction from Biopac Systems and an actual file I would like to covert to ASCII. I would appreciate any help, hints, or leads. Thanks

[Enrique]

An alternative instead of dealing directly with BIOPAC's .acq files is to use their AcqKnowledge software to save the data in text format, which then you can read from LabVIEW.

Enrique

[Aaron Marks]

For some reason, your files don't seem to have been attached. If Enrique's solution is not viable for whatever reason then you will have to parse out the file yourself. The Read File.VI can interpret binary data as anything you want by wiring up the "byte stream type" input. People are often tempted to wire up a cluster with all the datatypes in the file, but this is usually not an option. Things like arrays and strings in clusters are represented by handles to the actual data as apposed to the data being in line. It is therefore necessary to read these out of the file separately. It might also be necesary for you to reverse the byte order of numeric data since LabVIEW is "big endian" while most PC applications are "little endian"