Parsing data

[PReitano]

hi,

i am trying to parse my hex string into nibbles and display them in my cluster. For example if my hex string was 80 01, then 8 goes into the first slot in D0, then 0 goes into the second slot of D0, then 0 goes into D1 and 1 goes into the second slot of D1 etc. However the data going into D0 and D1 are converted into binary. Does anybody know how to parse this data?

I have include my incomplete vi.

[CS]

Use the Type Cast Function.
Attached is a vi example.

Hope this helps.
Chad

[PReitano]

hi,

I can not run your program. I am running LV7. Can you please convert your program to LV7.

Thanks

[altenbach]

LabVIEW does not support nibbles as data type, the shortest is U8. Thus you probably want to split each byte (U8) into two bytes, ignoring the 4 high bits in each.

This is easy to do using masks. Take each U8 and "AND" it with x0F (00001111) to get half, then rotate the original U8 by 4 vits and repeat the masking for the other half.

Attached is a simplified example (LV 7.0) that probably does what you need. Modify as required.

[PReitano]

Thanks a lot for all you help.