Simple Output File Formatting Question

[kgould]

First off I will prefix this by saying that I am not a very good LabVIEW user.  Everything I have learned I just taught myself from looking at instrument control vi's.  Well I am trying to take a number of readings from my Agilient switch 34972A.  I can send the command, convert the return string, and make the reading into an array.  The issue I have is when I try to write that array to a file.  If I take the array directly as It comes out of the for loop that converts it from a string to an array, I end up with a file that looks something like this:

TimeData

025.8

124.3

226.1

323.9

025.7

124.4

225.9

324.1

And so on.  This is not at all what I want.  I understand what is happening but don't really know how to fix it except that way I did in my program below, but this is very tedious especially if I want to expand to 15 or 20 channels.  In this method I break the array appart recombine it and then write it to file and I end up with a file like:

TimeData0Data1Data2Data3

0.2525.824.326.123.9

0.525.724.425.924.1

And so on.  My question is that I am sure there is a simpler way to do exactly this but I can not seem to figure it out.  Any suggestions would be great thank you.

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Out of curiousity, what's wrong with just saving the instrument's response straight into at text file?  Seeing that it is comma delimited, I would save the data to a *.csv (command separated values file).  Then Excel will even read it nicely.

Something like this is what I'm envisioning.