File format of waveform to file function

[KRICLA]

Can someone tell me what the file format of the Save waveform to file function is? I can change the file ending as much as I want, but I still get strange content which looks like some kind of ascii but I can not decode in matlab.

Should be fairly simple but I can not find a single word about it...

[GerdW]

Hi KRICLA,

just look into the WriteWaveformsToFile function to find the "Write WDT Array Dlog File+" function.

Look inside this subVI to find an ordinary WriteDatalog function and read its help…

[crossrulz]

Try using the Export Waveforms To Spreadsheet File instead.  That defaults to a tab delimited text file format.

[KRICLA]

I'll have a look on the datalog function then and see if I can understand it.

I've also tried spreadsheet but it gave me a peculiar result with several title rows and lots of data missing. I was expecting columns with like 400 rows of sample data (10Hz for a couple of seconds). So that's why I'd like to give the other function a try as well.

I tried attaching the output file but the site doesn't allow it......

[KRICLA]

Ok, my bad. I'd made a mistake in the assembling of my waveforms, that's why the spreadsheet export looked weird and data were missing. Maybe that's the way to go then, instead of datalogging