Reading a text file and using data to plot a graph

Dear Friends,
I have the following problem...
I have a text data looking like this;
100000000
1003ff001
1010013ff
1000003ff
1023fe001
102000000
1023ff3ff
1010013fd
0ff0033fc
0ff002001
0fe3fd3ff
0ff000002
100000000
1003ff001
1010013ff
1000003ff
1023fe001
102000000
1023ff3ff
1010013fd
0ff0033fc
0ff002001
0fe3fd3ff
0ff000002
My Code should have a button , when you click that button it should ask you to choose a txt file to open this file from a specific place. The Indicators of the front panel should show me the ID , Name and Date. The data;
100000000
1003ff001
1010013ff
1000003ff
1023fe001
102000000
1023ff3ff
1010013fd
the first 3 bits belong to X axis, the next 3 bits belong to Y and the rest 3 belongs to Z axis.  I have to convert those values to Decimal system, and plot them in a graph, 10 times a second , which means after converting and plotting 10 values , one second is over.
I would aprriciate it very much if you could help me in this case....
Thanks in advance.
Message Edited by Support on 11-13-2007 01:03 PM
Message Edited by Support on 11-13-2007 01:04 PM

Some questions a teacher might ask:
What's the display setting for the "\n" string diagram constant? Why?
Is it better to read the file one line at a time or all at once?
What would you do to be able to stop the chart display before it runs out of data?
What would be different if we combine the two FOR loops into one?
How would you display the header as a multiline string instead of an array of strings?
Why is the scan format %03x instead of %3x? Would it make a difference?
What is the purpose of the two items of the property node?
What would you need to change to plot the data every 50ms? (change in two places!)
Why is the error output of the property node wired to the first FOR loop? (After all, the error value is not really used anywhere there!)
Instead of the two "array subset" operations, we could do it with one icon. Which one? (two possibilities!)
So... be prepared!
Message Edited by altenbach on 10-29-2007 11:31 AM
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