Urgent!! a very simple question: How to building a 2D array of strings from a text file?

[gon_no1]

Hi there Experts !!

I want to do a very simple operation in LabVIEW --> read in a text file and put the contents inside a 2D string Array !!!

I used the built-in "Read from Text File" VI, and i got all my content inside a string.

I now need to process this string and put the contents inside a 2D array.  But I don't know how.

here is the what my tab-delimited text file looks like:

content1    content2    content3    content4  ........  content9

content10  content11  ..........................................  content18

:

:

:

contentN   contentN+1  ......................................... contentN+8

So, I need a 2D string array of a fixed width (column number) of 9, and the height (the row number) depends on the text file.

I have tried alot of things, but all failed......

Please help with this ASAP.  Thank you very much !!

Warmest Regards,

Dave

[AndrewAlford]

I just modified the Read From Spreadsheet VI to output strings. See the attached VI.

[gon_no1]

Thank you very very much Andrew !!!!

cheers!!

[tst]

Use Spreadsheet String to Array (String palette). Wire a 2D string into the type input and your delimiter (the default is a tab) into the Delimiter input.

[tst]

Hmm... for some reason I didn't see the 2 existing replies the first time around...

Just ignore that last one.