How do determine data type?

I am trying to write my own binary file saver and I need to list the data type in the custom header. How do you do this in labview?

kameronrausch wrote:
The data acquistion spits out data in several different formats so a priori, I do not know the data type. It can be either a 32-unsigned int, 16-bit unsigned int, 8-bit unsigned int or the signed version of each one of these. To make the program general purpose however, I would like to incorporate floating point data points as well.
At some point you have to know what the data type is before start collecting data. If all you have is a stream of bits there is no way to determine what the data type is. What controls how the data acquistion is getting its data? If it is test specific you could use an external configuration file to store this and use that to determine how the data should be interpreted. If you have arrays of specificdata types you could use a polymorphic VI for your data writes. Based on teh wire type of the input the appropriate VI would be called. How is your data being passed from your data acquistion to the VI that will write it to a file?
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