Read in spreadsheet file

Hello,
This is a very basic question about reading in spreadsheet files. How do I do it please?
I have a spreadsheet of 1 row and 256 columns. What separates the data in a spreadsheet file? Is it tab.
My current .vi doesnt want to read in the spreadsheet for some reason.
Thanks,
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That function does not read xls or xlsx files. It reads ASCII spreadsheet files. You could either save your Excel file as a CSV (File->Save As, then change the type to CSV) or a text file and use that VI. Or you can use some ActiveX commands to read the data from Excel. Changing the file type is a lot easier.
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Read From Spreadsheet File help

I am saving all my data to a text file (See attached file). The problem is that when I try and use the Read From Spreadsheet File.vi I am unclear on how to make it show all my data.
Does anyone know a away for me to read the whole file and display it all at once reather than line by line?
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The read from spread sheet Vi has two data outputs : the top right retrieves the whole file as a 2D array, if you leave the "number of rows" input on the left unwired.
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Read from spreadsheet file

Hi! I am a beginner labview user and I have a problem reading data from a
..xls file. I have written in columns the data that i want to present in a
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You say that you want to read data from a .xls file. You use Read From Spreadsheet File to get the data into LV.
You have mixed some things. A .xls file is NOT a spreadsheet file. It is a file which could be read by MS Excel and some other tools which have import filters for this file. Read from Spreadsheet File is not such a filter.
A spreadsheet file in the context of LV is a text file where the cells of a row are separeted by a tab and the rows are separated by a end of line.
A save thing is use Active-X automation to communicate with MS Excel. Let it load the file and read out the cells. The are examples in LV help and in the dev zone. You must have installed and licenced MS Ecxel on your target machine. Maybe someone has written such a fil
ter for LV but I don't know it.
The other way will only work if you use US local settings and the data is in one worksheet. Save the file with the extention .txt. So Excel will generate a text file of the correct format. Excel will use the regional settings of your machine. You can read in this file with Read From Spreadsheet File. Unfortunatly this will use fixed settings which are the same as for US regional settings.
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Write/read from spreadsheet file

How to write and read bach 2D array from spreadsheet file?

The Write to Spreadsheet File.vi and the Read to Spreadsheet File.vi that ship with Labview are fairly self-explanatory - also check the File I/O examples included with Labview.

求助: 如何使用write to spreadsheet file.vi 和 read from spreadsheet file.vi, 并且如何定义它们的路径???

请问如何使用write to spreadsheet file.vi 和 read from spreadsheet file.vi,我知道spreadsheet file.vi只支持.txt文件,但我应该在哪里设置它们的路径呢,请各位帮忙指点,能不能具体说明下,谢谢...

write to spreadsheet file.vi 和 read from spreadsheet file.vi,支持.xls文件.
可以在path处设置它们的路径.

EOF detection in "Read From Spreadsheet File"

Hi folks, I need help in detecting EOF in a "Read From Spreadsheet File". I' d like to stop a while loop by wiring the EOF? indicator to the stop condition, but this doesn't work. For design resons I can't substitute the while loop with a for loop and I DO need the while loop. I read something about creating custom EOF detection but I'm wondering why the builtin function in the vi doesn' t work and if there isn't some simple solution. Many thanks, hazibuli

I'm guessing that you want to process one line at a time from the spreadsheet. Use Read From Spreadsheet File to read in the entire spreadsheet as Dennis says. Then wire the 2D output to a For Loop with indexing enabled. Each iteration of the For Loop will allow you to process one line at a time. When the last line is processed, the For Loop will exit automatically. Here is an example to get string length of each element in a spreadsheet. Message Edited by tbob on 03-15-2010 09:46 AM

For Mike Porter: Read from Spreadsheet File.vi" function

On 2/17/03 you answered my question about reading and viewing a test done last week back into Labview. I can open the "Read from Spreadsheet File.VI" in Labview and read the file "data.txt" into the VI. The data comes back into the rows & cells on the VI screen but I don't know how to open the graph to see the data as curves. I can see about a 3 x 4 array of cells at a time and the correct data is there but I want to plot it. Do I need to create a new block diagram and VI? I apologize for the vagueness of my question - I'm new at Labview.
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Create a VI with a Waveform Graph on the front panel. On the block diagram, insert a Read From Spreadsheet File function. Connect the All Rows output to the Waveform Graph.
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Read from Spreadsheet File VI

Hello to everyone!
I want to read a spreadsheet file VI, wich contain many rows with this format:
0.475009,0.242797;
0.023044,0.522105;
0.735105,0.634358;
0.955100,0.982586;
etc..
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0.475009
0.023044
0.735105
0.955100
while the right one contains the right number:
0.242797
0.522105
0.634358
0.982586
Someone can help me?
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Hi GerdW.
The end of line delimiter is ;
with comma i separate two different measurements: the left numbers rapresent a current measure, while the right numbers a voltage measure.
I want to read my csv file, split the numbers into two different array, then plot the current and the voltage.
My start point is:
where all rows are like this:
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Format precision apparently ignored when using read from spreadsheet file

I hope there is ridiculously simple solution to this problem but so far I can't find it. Using the Read from Spreadsheet File function in LabVIEW7.1, I can't get the floating point format (%f) to work; the decimal (%d) seems to work fine. For example, the first value in the attached file is 399.5853. When I read it in using %.2f format I would think I should get 399.58 but instead I get 399.58529663... Oddly if I use %d as the format, I get an as expected value of 399. Can anyone see what I am missing?
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ReadFileTEST.vi ‏23 KB
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The solution to the problem is the internal representation of floating point numbers: with a limited number of bytes only a limited number of the (infinitely many) real numbers can be represented. The nearest representable number to 399.5853 is 399.58529663 if the so-called single precision representation (abbr. SGL in Labview) is used.
It seems that (ridiculously!) NI has chosen to use SGL as the data format in the Read from Spreadsheet VI which causes the unexpected behaviour you observed.
You can change the representation from SGL (which uses 4 bytes) to DBL (double precision, using 8 bytes) in the Read from Spreadsheet VI and you will observe a better approximation then, but still not 'exact' since the number now reads 399.585300000000018. (With t
he EXT representation, 10 bytes, you could go to even higher precision)
I hope someone from NI reads this and they fix the unnecessary limitation of the precision in the Read from Spreadsheet VI.

Read From Spreadsheet File.vi in windows 7

Hi,
I use Read From Spreadsheet File.vi in windows 7 to read a table, but when it executes, i get a dialogue box asking for the filename, (The box is properly wired to the path).
However, when i execute exactly the same programme in windows Xp it works with no problem.
¿Any known issues with this vi and xindows 7?
I am using labview 8.6.
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I am using a relative path as shown in the figure, files are user1.xls user2.xls .... they all exist.
I have build the program and instaled on other xp machine, it works. Then installed in a win 7 machine and is not working.
Maybe there is a problem with ..\..\?
Any other way to go to a parent folder not using ..\ ?
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Read from spreadsheet file with multiple delimiters

Is there a way to specify multiple delimitors in the read from spreadsheet file vi? I have a file that i need to read in that contains both space and comma delimitors and would like to read that data into an array using both delimitors (or not and). Below is the data I'm trying to read.
;attenuator data table
att00:   db       000h,015h,017h,035h,03Ch,03Eh,03Eh,05Ch,05Eh,05Eh
att10:   db       07Ch,07Eh,07Fh,09Dh,09Fh,09Fh,0BDh,015h,017h,035h
att20:   db       03Eh,03Eh,05Ch,05Ch,05Eh,07Ch,07Ch,07Eh,09Dh,09Dh
att30:   db       09Fh,0BDh,000h,000h,000h,002h,002h,002h,002h,003h
att40:   db       021h,021h,021h,021h,021h,023h,023h,023h,023h,023h
att50:   db       041h,041h,048h,048h,048h,04Ah,04Ah,04Ah,04Ah,068h
att60:   db       068h,068h,068h,068h,068h,06Ah,06Bh,06Bh,06Bh,089h
att70:   db       089h,089h,089h,08Bh,08Bh,08Bh,08Bh,0A9h,0A9h,0A9h
att80:   db       0A4h,0A6h,0A6h,0A6h,0A6h,0C4h,0C4h,0C4h,0C4h,0C6h
att90:   db       0C6h,0C6h,0C6h,0E4h,0E4h,0E5h,0E5h,0E7h,0E7h,0E7h
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I'm looking to just read in the data adjust the hex values and then save the data in the exact form which I read it in. If read from spreadsheet file can not recognize multiple delimiters that is all I need to know. I do not want to spend time reading it in using a single delimitor and doing a bunch of string manipulation. I'm also working with LabView 8.5 if that makes a difference.

You should use "scan string for tokens", and wire an array of delimiters.
One nice behavior is the fact that consecutive delimiters are contracted into one (by default), so e.g. if your delimiters is an array containing a space and a comma, a sequence of three spaces and a comma would still count as one delimiter.
For some ideas, have a look at my old example here:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=192847#M192847
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Is there a file size limit when using Read From Spreadsheet File?

I'm trying to read in a large file, about 52mb, 525600 lines with 27 fileds in each line using "Read From SpreadsheetFile.vi". I then search the 2D array for -999, which represents bad/no data in that field and total the number of fields with -999 in it. This all works on 3 months worth of data. The program is giving me an out of memory error and stopping in the case where the read takes place on the large one year file. So my question is does the Read from Spreadsheet file have size limitations? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance for the help.
ssmith
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Camerond--
Thanks for the help. I recreated the VI you posted and unfortunately it doesnt work. It looks like the index array vi is only looking at the zero index and not the other 26 fields in each row. This would probably require a FOR LOOP to go through each field index. This is what I have and it works on a smaller version of the file. For some reason LV is using up bucket loads of memory to run this smaller file and crashes running the 60MB file. I've attached one of my vi's to solve this problem and the smaller data set. You'll see in the beginning that I trim some columns and rows to leave just the data I want to scan. Thanks again for the help.
I just tried send 3 months worth of one minute data and it failed. So here is a really small version, 20 minutes worth of data. Does anyone see anything that would cause memory usage issues here?
ssmith
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Find-999NoLoops.vi ‏17 KB
TEST2MET.txt ‏3 KB

Error 7 occurred when trying to read a spreadsheet file in LabVIEW

Hi,
I got the message (in bold) below when I was trying to read a text file type. I also include a snippet of my block diagram.
Error 7 occurred at Open File+.vipen File
Possible reason(s):
LabVIEW: File not found. The file might have been moved or deleted, or
the file path might be incorrectly formatted for the operating system.
For example, use \ as path separators on Windows, : on Mac OS X, and /
on Linux. Verify that the path is correct using the command prompt or
file explorer.
I really appreciate if someone can help me. Thanks.
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Hi Ravens Fan,
Thanks again for your valuable input. I replaced the string manipulation functions with a path control. I think it works coz I can see the waveform data, rms values etc. And then you said if it works, do a Path to String on that...and I'm not exactly sure how to do that. I attached a snippet of the modified vi. you may refer the original vi snippet in my previous email.
I appreciate it if you could help me again.
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Problem using read from spreadsheet file and polar plotting

Hi to all labview users,
i am a beginner in labview and i am trying to do a polar plot.
i read the polar plotting example in labview and it was straightforward.
I used "write to spreadsheet file" to gather data.
and they are in the following format
13 10
4 20
8 30
....etc
now. i tried using "read from spreadfile" to get the data into a array, then using "array to cluster" to convert the array into cluster, so i could connect it to the polar plot block
however, it kept saying i couldnt connect that way, because polar plot uses 1-d array with cluster of 2 element and my source is a cluster of 9 elements....
but doesnt the "read from spreadfile" block give me a 1-d array? and where does that 9 come from? i only have 3 rows and 2 columns in my data file....
any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
thx alot
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Helllo,
I've made an example to try to help you with that question.
Notes:
- the file must have values separeted by tab
- reading the values from file as you mentioned using "read from spreadfile" you'll get a 2D array and not 1D;
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Read Table and plot polar graph.vi ‏26 KB
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求助: 还是一个如何使用write to spreadsheet file.vi 和 read from spreadsheet file.vi, 并且如何定义它们的路径的问题???

在定义路径时有两个路径框,一个是FILE PATH,另一个是NEW FILE PATH,请问我应该定义哪个呢???定义好后就可以直接往spreadsheet file.vi中存储和读取记录了吗???还需要再做任何其它的工作吗???谢谢...

定义file path就可以了，new file path 是这个VI的输出

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