serin and serin2

ive just managed to sucessfully use the sein command but i noticed that the pbp manual specifically said that only one character can be used. does this mean that to send a string of information i would have to send letter after letter or is there some sort of modifier that i dont know about.
if this is the case would it be easier to use the serin2 command?

thanks

you talk about two different things here! BTW...

Yes you can receive only one character at a time... every character is a byte, one variable then. So in this case you have to place every character in a array or EEPROM (As you wish).

BUT

you can send almost everything. A string will be send in one shot when using SEROUT statement.

ok how would i go about puttin the information into the array. theres nothing about it in the manual.

cheers.
phil

well the easiest solution is to do a simple loop and waiting of an EOT, CR,LF or else to finish storing into ARRAY. i'll assume a 8 element array here.

Code:

---


SerialDataIn VAR BYTE
MyArray VAR BYTE[8]
Looping VAR BYTE

CR con 13
Looping = 0

start:
while (Looping<8) and (SerialDataIn != CR)
    serin serpin,baudrate,SerialDataIn
    if SerialDataIn != CR then
          MyArray[Looping] = SerialDataIn
          Looping = Looping +1
    endif
wend

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Phil, If you use the SERIN2 command you can load an entire array with a single line of code. Here is a line that would work for you:

MyArray VAR BYTE[8]

CR con 13

start:
SERIN2 serpin,baudrate,[STR MyArray\8\CR]

This line of code will fill the array with no more than 8 received characters or as many characters until it reaches a cariage return.

It's all in the manual......

HTH,
Dave Purola,