The following table shows which format specifiers are valid for each data type. If a cell contains X, the format is invalid for that data type. If the cell contains 
, the format is valid for that data type. If the data type changes and the current format is not allowed with the new data type or if the cell is labeled -+, LabVIEW changes the format to the default format for that data type. For example, setting the format of a double-precision, floating-point data type to absolute time is valid, but when you change the double-precision, floating-point data type to a long signed integer data type, the format changes to decimal format.
| Format Specifier | T |
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b |
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u |
f |
e |
g |
p |
# |
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| Data Types |
Absolute Time |
Relative Time |
Hexadecimal |
Octal |
Binary |
Signed |
Unsigned |
Floating- Point |
Scientific Notation |
Scientific Notation or Floating-Point, Based on Exponent |
SI Prefix |
Auto Precision (Remove Trailing 0s) |
Engineering Notation |
| Time Stamp | |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Complex types (CXT, CDB, CSG) | X | X | X | X | X | -+ |
-+ |
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| Real floating-point types (EXT, DBL, SGL) | -+ |
-+ |
X | X | X | |
-+ |
-+ |
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| Integer types (U64, I64, U32, I32, U16, I16, U8, I8) | -+ |
-+ |
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-+ |
-+ |
-+ |
-+ |
-+ |
-+ |
| Fixed-point type (FXP) | X | X | |
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