Rename Read and Write Spreadsheet file

[PhillipBrooks]

These function names create undue confusion. Every semester, new students to LabVIEW post questions on the NI and LAVA forums asking how to use these functions to open, edit or load data from an Excel file (.xls).

Unfortunately, the name spreadsheet file has become synonymous with Excel. Even experienced computer users have an expectation of some sort of intelligent file when reading the title "Read from Spreadsheet File".

These functions should really be renamed to 'Read from' and 'Write to' DSV file...

Delimiter Separator Values  (wikipedia link)

[PhillipBrooks]

and another

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/capacitor-tester/m-p/2691469#M800017

[PhillipBrooks]

And another...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Write-to-Excel/m-p/3068438#M875387

[jcarmody]

I can't wait until the baby is born. What are you going to name it?

[Darren]

Don't you know it's twins? We're going with "Write Delimited Spreadsheet.vi" and "Read Delimited Spreadsheet.vi".

[AristosQueue (NI)]

And we're performing a bit of in-vitro surgery to remove the General Error Handler.vi. 🙂

[PhillipBrooks]

Hopefully the gene pool will be ROBUST 

[AristosQueue (NI)]

PhillipBrooks: No. Darren and I are not doing anything to otherwise change the functionality of these VIs. Expanding them to handle new formats is beyond the scope of our edit.

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW 2015 and later