upgrading help - convert 1D array of string to 1D array of single number error?

[unknown00]

am trying to upgrade from lv 6.1 to 8.0. here is the only error i am having left in this program. the sink is a vi that converts a 2D or 1D array of single-precision numbers to a text string and writes the string to a new byte stream file or appends the string to an existing excel file. any ideas? i am very new to vi and this is my first assignment- to upgrade old programs

[altenbach]

Your image is blank, please try again. 😞

[unknown00]

weird...this computer doesn't support .jpg/.gif formats. so weird. anyways here it is

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i730554_help.bmp

[altenbach]

Still not good. The link you gave times out. Does it work for you?

[unknown00]

yea link works fine here. here is another one

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/703f2d51ff.jpg

[altenbach]

Still does not work. Why don't you attach the VI or image directly here?

[unknown00]

they all work fine for me and other pple at the office 😞 here it is attached. the problem is i don't know how to convert string to number. is there a way to write to a spreadsheet without having to be numbers?

[altenbach]

If you have LabVIEW 8.2, "write to spreadsheet file" has a polymorphic selector that allows you to write arrays of strings or of numbers. 🙂

Anyway, you have only 8.0. Simply use "array to spreadsheet string" (use %s for the format) and write the string to the file.

[unknown00]

thanks for the reply but it still doesn't work. i changed the format to %s but that didn't do anything. should i be connecting to the format %s instead of the 1D Data on the "Write to Spreadsheet"?

[altenbach]

You are still using "write to spreadheet file" for the plain string!

Instead of doing all these individual file operations, create the entire file content in memory and write it to a text file in one swoop. See attached for one possibility.

Message Edited by altenbach on 06-04-2007 12:29 PM