Passing Strings between VI's in TestStand

[JDev]

I'm having great difficulty passing the following string using TestStand:  3051 0E 00 0103212A 01 02 09

-If I wire an output of on vi containing this string to the input of another vi INSIDE a LabView vi, it passes successfully.

-If, however, I attempt to pass this from the output of one vi to the input of another, it truncates the passed string to:  3051 0E .

If I convert this string to an array of hex numbers, it passes without fail.  Of course, I can define number of elements in the array to include all values, but I am unable to find any such settings for the length of a passed string.

Any ideas?

[AllenP]

You need to change the parameter from an ASCII string to a Binary string when you configure the VIs.  Look for the column that says ASCII string and change that on the parameters.

Allen P.

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