format of binary data in labview 8.6 or more

I'm writing a binary file in LV8.6 to an array of clusters in which each cluster has many types of data in it including more tables and clusters. I want to read that data in a MatLab program, but nothing is read correctly.  It seems also that there is change between after labview 7.x where the type defs have been written in 16-bit before now are 32-bit. and I can find no documentation on how the binary write function stores the data of complex data types.  Any search for documentation on the site of labview brings just hundreds of visits irrelevant.  I try to read the binary file in matlab and I don't see any numbers expected coming out.

Someone at - it a link to where I can get the specifications for LV > = 8.6 binary formats.  Or full of info on flatten channel for new versions of labview.

Thank you.

The format of the flattened data is documented in the help of LabVIEW. In the contents tab, expand Fundamentals-> how LabVIEW stores data in memory-> Concepts-> data flattened.

The flatten the string function only saves the data, not the structure. You think of Type descriptors. Yes, it has changed in LabVIEW 8. BT 7, they were 16-bit. BT 8, they are 32-bit. It is also documented in the help of LabVIEW.  Fundamentals-> how LabVIEW stores data in memory-> Concepts-> Type descriptors.

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