Parsing data from uC (2)

[gillettestm32]

I am sending this: "b,4.53783,4.10000,00:03:59" (confirmed with a terminal) from a microcontroller and would like to write this to a txt file.

The format should be something like this: 4.53783  4.10000  00:03:59.  

What i am actually getting is this: 4.538 4.100 0.000 3.000 59.000. 

Any ideas?

thanks

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi gilette,

when you want to handle strings then you should handle strings (and not numerics!):

More recommendations:

• use a format string of "%[^,],%f,%f,%s" to scan the received string
• there are also format codes to scan timestamps…
• don't use ExpressVIs (like MergeSignal) to handle your data!
• it's called "to parse" when you analyze text…

[crossrulz]

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@GerdW wrote:

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You could just use Search/Replace String to replace all of the commas with tabs.

[GerdW]

Hi crossrulz,

you still need to delete that first item in the list/vector/array…

[gillettestm32]

Doh...

thanks a lot