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Using LV2010. I have a program that saves data as a binary file. The file is a cluster of floating point values and strings. I need to write another program in VB.NET that can save/read these files, so I need information on the actual file format of the data. Is there any documentation that describes how the file is saved? Thanks.
Interesting. This question usually gets asked in the reverse direction with folks trying to decode into a cluster.
If you're using the WriteToBinary function, your data is being written as native datatypes in cluster order into the binary file. Since you're using a cluster, each string is being prepended with a length, which I believe is an I32.
This is described in the Help File for Write to Binary File. I think the string/array length thing trips people up a lot though.
