Reading irregular string from a file

[Ancle]

Dear All,

I have an original txt file named scal.txt. It's irregular string. I used excel to save as with tab format named scal-1.txt. It can read from LabVIEW. How can I read irregular string with in LabVIEW. Thank you.

[F._Schubert]

Your original format uses fixed width. So you need to split each line at the nth position.

Felix

[Ancle]

Dear F. Schubert,

Which function can I use. Any examples? Thank you!

[Coq_Rouge · Accepted solution]

This is quite simple. Use help for more information.

[F._Schubert]

In the string palette you might find a lot of useful functions for manipulating strings. I'm not sure with the names (I memorized the icons), but I think one was called 'Pick line' and the other was called 'split string'.

Felix

[altenbach]

On a side note, things would have been quite a bit simpler with this idea implemented. Please support it if you like it! 🙂

(In this special case of fixed width fields, even this idea would have solved it. ;))