First, I strongly recommend that you open your own .csv example file with Notepad or any other text editor. You will see that it consists of lines of text broken up into columns of string (first line) or numeric (all other lines) data. This is a file type that LabVIEW calls a "Delimited Spreadsheet File", and (if you use their Delimited Spreadsheet" functions) saves with a default extension of .csv. Do you know what a .csv file means? CSV stands for "Comma-separated Values", where the separator is a comma (","), not a tab, but I'm just being "picky".
Excel is, indeed, able to open and "import" text files having a Comma or a Tab separating "columns", but it is not correct to say that such files are "Excel" files (even though Microsoft associates the .csv extension with what looks like an Excel icon).
However, the LabVIEW Delimited Spreadsheet File functions will do a very nice job for you, particularly when you combine them with a little intelligence code to create the data for a single row (i.e. iterate over the columns) and for multiple rows (iterate over the rows). Of course, you only want to do the Header Row once ...
Study those LabVIEW Functions, try to figure out (for yourself) how to use them, write some simple code, post it, and we'll critique it for you.
Bob Schor
