Yes, I believe it can be trusted with a variable. I've used this form to receive a variable number of characters based on a length parameter received immediately prior to the...
Unfortunately Charles Leo is not monitoring this forum. I 'll make a post on support.melabs.com to clarify this, since the manual is not very clear on the matter.
Re: HSEROUT using STR modifier - length parameter as variable not working
For now, here a my two test programs with 16F690 and 18F1220.
flotulopex Today, 13:11Surprisingly (to me), both accept the STR length as variable in the 3 ways I'm using it (HSEROUT, SEROUT2 and DEBUG).
I'll go back...