telnet string to excel

[Trip64]

im new to programming so im sure im missing something but....

im trying to collect data that IM receiving from a telnet session. Its in a string format.  The data gets displayed in a table layout and I would like to take that and in bed it into excel.  I will also need to set it up for multiple polling of the data and add each one to the file. 

so do I have to create multiple strings that parse out each data point then build an 2d array to put it into the easy table vi from the report gen. toolkit?

or is there an easier way?

[smercurio_fc · Accepted solution]

What is not easy about that? You seem to already be creating a 2D array in order to display the data on the table, so you have the data. With the Excel Easy Table VI you can specify the cell where to start writing, so you don't really need to write out the whole table, only what you just got at that particular point in time. I don't know what your Excel file is supposed to look like, but if you're just saving it to file you could, instead, use the Write To Spreadsheet File. It saves to a tab-delimited text file that you can open with Excel.