text file reader VIs for LabView?

[george_d]

I will need to program LabView to read commands in a text file and then
the program will run a number of stepper motors. The commands will be
of the sort:

move 2,100 ;moves motor # 2 to a position that is 100 steps from home
position.
wait 500 ;wait 500mS
etc;

I've programmed something like this in LabView about 10 years ago and
it was a pain, plus I've forgotten how I did it.

I was wondering if there where a number if VI's that at least help or
even do some of the key tasks involved in this. Or if there is some
caned code out there?

Thanks George

[TiTou]

Hi George,

Of course LabVIEW has built in VIs to read text file !
Here is an small example of what you could do, I tried to document it as much as I could.

Hope this will help