convert multiple length numerics to string for a table

[tca-adam]

Perhaps I am over complicating this, but the solution evades me.....

I have a mix of numeric types (lengths) that I want to display in a table together.

is there an easy method to do a "convert to string" on a 2d array that displays all differing lengths of numbers?

If I use Fractional convert on the array I end up with numbers all being the same length, see below.

eg. How I want it displayed: (note the varying lengths of numerics)

Applied Volts	Frequency	Duration	Range
0.018	50	5	0.04
0.1	50	5	0.4
0.45	50	5	1
1.8	1000	10	4
45	10000	10	100

Not how I want it: ( all at 3 dec places)

Applied Volts	Frequency	Duration	Range
0.018	50.000	5.000	0.040
0.100	50.000	5.000	0.400
0.450	50.000	5.000	1.000
1.800	1000.000	10.000	4.000
45.000	10000.000	10.000	100.000

[johnsold]

How do you define which cells have which formats? Is the numeric data in an array or does it come from multiple sources?

Lynn

[tca-adam]

My routine reads in all those values in the table from a CSV file and converts them to numbers to control the instrumentation and perform calcs.

Just dawned on me that I could grab the raw string data as soon as I have read it from the CSV and push it straight to the table.

However, I am still curious if there is an easy way to represent varying length numerics in a table together. Ie I don't want set a length of 2, 4, or 6 etc, I just want the total number of digits shown in the table.

[GerdW]

Hi Adam,

it's all in the LabVIEW help: read about those different string formatting codes!

I would try something like "%#.6f" to get rid of trailing zeros…