LabVIEW
Need to Graph Tab Delimited Data Starting at Row X
NIQuist's idea is a pretty good solution. I can post a picture at least of what the code is doing that was posted. The idea there was to read all the data from your file and then just discard the first 23 rows of it. If we're dealing with ascii text data, I don't see a lot of options too much better than this.
Binary files are much more efficient about providing for random access. Random access is where you want to jump very quickly to a specific entry in a file. This is easily done since all the entries in a binary file have the same storage format in the file. For instance, all the numeric values in a 2D double array take up exactly 8 bytes. This makes it easy to calculate an appropriate offset to read at. With text files, it varies because of the presence or lack or positive or negative signs, decimal places, digits of precision recorded, etc.
The only other option is to search for the \r\n at the end of each line until you reach the 23rd find. Then start reading. Here's the screenshot of the earlier code:
Binary files are much more efficient about providing for random access. Random access is where you want to jump very quickly to a specific entry in a file. This is easily done since all the entries in a binary file have the same storage format in the file. For instance, all the numeric values in a 2D double array take up exactly 8 bytes. This makes it easy to calculate an appropriate offset to read at. With text files, it varies because of the presence or lack or positive or negative signs, decimal places, digits of precision recorded, etc.
The only other option is to search for the \r\n at the end of each line until you reach the 23rd find. Then start reading. Here's the screenshot of the earlier code:
Message Edited by Jarrod S. on 06-30-2006 12:43 PM
I emailed Steeve with the code but good point on the spam warning. I also realized that I should have incremented (+1) the iteration terminal in the loop to keep the timebase in the first column from being plotted (Plot 1: the straight line ) and also should have looped for 8 iterations, not 7, to plot all the data. How come no one noticed these glaring errors! 
