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Hello!
I'm just learning LabView, and have arrived at the stage of writing time-stamped data to text files.
This seems clear enough, however when I examine the file written to disk, I find 4 unexpected characters: 3 spaces and one seemingly random number or punctuation mark, preceding every line!
An example is:
   .2005-07-15 10:55:40.0 the value is 0.0000 cm
   .2005-07-15 10:55:40.5 the value is 1.0000 cm
The four characters "   ." are those whose origin I can't understand. I can't seem to get rid of them.
They seem to change with the input string, but not in a manner I can predict or understand.
Any hints or explanations would be greatly appreciated, as I'm at wit's end after 1/2 day of puzzling over this little problem!
Alex
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time stamp data write VIs.zip ‏24 KB

Alex,
You found one of the subtle little things that can be frustrating to old-timers and newcomers alike. I did not recognize it until I read the help file (and I have been using LV since version 1.2).
First, the three characters before the commas are nulls (\00).
The reason they are there is in the help file for the Write File.vi. By wiring an array to the data input, you caused the VI to write a header telling what data format was used.
I modified your VI to simply concatenate the strings and then write a simple string to the file. I think this may be what you were after.
Lynn
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write timestamp text line to file v3.vi ‏47 KB

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