write data\time string in a text file

[maumontesi]

Hello I have alittle problem. I need to write in a text file data acquired from an external instruments and the time (day, hour, month, secon) of acquisition for each point. I use write data to a spedsheet file, but I have a problem becouse I can't convert time\date (by means of get time\date string) in a number. (to use write data to a spedsheet file I should have all number and not string).

I need a file txt with two columns : in the fist time and in the second acquird data (the acquisition is in real time).

please help me.

Syncerely Mau

[Dennis_Knutson]

Convert your numeric data to a string. The Write to Spreadsheet File in the latest version of LabVIEW can be optionally selected to write string data. Older versions of it have instructions on the block diagram on how to modify the function so that you can create a copy of the VI that will write a 1D or 2D array of strings.

[Chuck_81]

If your data are taken with the same time interval between each measurement, you can builda waveform and then use the function "Export waveforms to spreadsheet file.vi"; it allows you to store multiple waveforms in the same file. There is an example into the LabVIEW Example finder called "Export waveforms to spreadsheet file Example.vi".

Hope this helps,

Fabio