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214 VEE User’s Guide
5 Storing and Retrieving Test Results Chapter
Lab 5-3: Using the To/From File Objects
This lab exercise describes the process of getting test data to
and from files. In this exercise, you will store and retrieve three
common test result items: a test name, a time stamp, and a
one- dimensional array of Real values. The same process will
apply to all VEE data types.
Sending a Text String to a File
1 Select I/O ⇒ To ⇒ File. Set the entries as follows
2 Double- click in the transaction area to display the I/O
Transaction dialog box. (Refer to
Figure 128 and Figure
129, if necessary.)
WRITE TEXT an EOL is the default transaction. It writes the
data on pin a using TEXT encoding and a specified
end- of- line sequence. VEE is not case- sensitive. You can use
lower- case or upper- case strings for data input and data
output terminal names.
Set the entries as follows:
Table 2 0 Sending a Text String to a File
Operation Description
filename Use the default file myFile. The default file can be changed
by clicking the To File input field to get a list box of files in
the home directory.
Clear File At
PreRun & Open
Check this box. By default, VEE appends new data to the
end of an existing file. Checking the box clears the file
before new data is written.