i want to create .dat file using labview 7.0 such that this file should not be opened by any other programs like MS EXCEL,MS WORD or notepad. Is it possible? please reply me.
1) What do you want to save in your .dat-file? The filename extension doesnt has any meaning to us nor describes the content of your file. 2) How do you want to prevent other programs to open your file? Every other program can access your files too - even when it contains not human readable or just encrypted data...
Best regards, GerdW
using LV2016/2019/2021 on Win10/11+cRIO, TestStand2016/2019
hi! I want to save the string format data in that file. I accept that that any user can open that file but file data should not be readable to that user.
If you want to save the data in a form that's compatible with notepad you are talking about saving data as a text file. If you have arrays of data to save, LV has formatters for converting arrays into tab-delimited strings. For other things, you can simply write strings containing the data to the file. There are many examples shipping with LV demonstrating saving text data.
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