LabVIEW变量类型及处理.pptVIP

Data Manipulation Overview and Applications Agenda Overview of LabVIEW data types Manipulating LabVIEW data types Changing data types Byte level manipulation of data Bit level manipulation of data Applications involving data manipulation Data encryption Instrument I/O LabVIEW Data Types: Numeric LabVIEW Data Types: Arrays Stored as handles containing: Size of each dimension (in unsigned long integers, U32s) Data (size of elements varies but is consistent through array) To align data correctly, a few bytes of padding may be added before the first element of data Array is a continuous block of memory LabVIEW Data Types: Others Booleans: 8 bits All zeros = FALSE, nonzero = TRUE Strings: 1D array of unsigned bytes Array of Strings: array of U32 handles to string locations Paths: handles containing path type and number of path components in U16s Byte 0,1: 0 (abs), 1(rel), 3 (UNC) Byte 2,3 # of path components LabVIEW Data Types: Clusters Data stored according to cluster order Scalar data stored directly in cluster Arrays, strings, and paths stored as a handle to the memory location where the data is stored Padding may need to be added, depending on OS Flattened Data Flat data takes up a continuous block of memory Scalar and array numerics are flat Strings are flat Arrays of strings are not flat Clusters may be flat (if simple numerics, for example) During File I/O LabVIEW automatically flattens all data to ease storage to disk Flatten/Unflatten to/from String functions perform the same operations in memory Flattened Data Flattened data normalized to standard form for platform independence Numeric data in big endian form (MSB first) Windows apps may need to be little endian – swap bytes Sun format for extended precision numbers Flattened form does not have data encoding When unflattening, data type needs to be known Type descriptor used to define data type Type Descriptors Sequence of word integers that can describe any data type in LabVIEW. length type code length I16 s