My vi records data in a tab-delimited format (with headers). I would like to make the text file appear on the screen when execution completes.
One option is to launch an external viewer such as Wordpad or Notepad: how is this done? Another option (that I have attempted) is to write a subvi that gets the whole file using "Read Characters From File.vi" with "-1" argument for "number of characters" and displays the entire thing in a string indicator. However, this latter approach somehow converts all tab characters to spaces, destroying the column alignment. How can I do this with tabs intact? Is the problem in the file reading or in the string indicator?
