Text Sink block
The Text Sink block allows the blueprint to sink data obtained from a simulation to a text file.
Note that this connector may or may not be available on the user palette, according to your license type.
Text Sink block
Description
The Text sink provides the functionality to read/write data from/to a delimited text file (thus supported file-types include, for example, .csv or .txt files).
Text sink block
Block Type
Input/Output block
Input/Output ports
The Text sink has no output ports and one input port. The fields in the input port can be of any type.
Functions performed on tags
The sink block does no processing on the tags.
Terminology
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Delimited - This refers to the separation of data elements in a text file by a character or combination of characters. The character that separates the elements is called the delimiter.
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Delimiter - A character or string used to separate, or mark the start and end of, items of data in, for example, a database, source code, or text file. The comma is the delimiter in a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file, whilst the tab key is the delimiter in a text (.txt) file
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