comma separator problem

[Laios]

Hi everybody,

could i know how to change the numeric format ? I've problem with matlab numeric format ( labview uses "," matlab instead " . " ) how can i set the point in labview numerical format?

i'm using labview 8.0

thanks

best regards

Luigi

[pincpanter]

Tools -> Options -> Front Panel. Uncheck "Use localized decimal point" and restart LabView. I'm talking about 7.1 but I guess that for 8.0 it's approximately the same.

[GerdW]

Hi Luigi,

you also may change your file reading routines to expect just "English based notation" by using "%.;" in your format strings when parsing externally generated files...

[Laios]

Dear Princpanter,

i tried do do that but  now labview uses windows vista settings (italian version) . nothing is changed...two possible solutions...

1 . try to change windows setting ( where???)

2 . try to change matlab format ( where???) in this case i think that i could have some problem whit matrix definition...

[Laios]

Dear GerdW,

could you explain more easily the procedure???

thank you.

[GerdW]

Hi Luigi,

when using scientific software (MatLab, communicating with measurement devices) I prefer to use English settings ("." for decimal separator, "," for thousands separator) even when using other languages than English (German in my case). You can set this in "Regional settings", atleast in WinXP.

You can read in (data-)files by using more low level functions and do the parsing (string to number) on your own using functions like "Scan from string" or "Spreadsheet string to array". When using such functions you have to define a format string! Here you can include "%.;" to set the string conversion to use English notation (read the context help for those functions, you will find a big list with all kinds of format codes).

[Laios]

thanks everyone,

I just solved the problem...

thank again

Luigi