Hserin

[GatorGuy]

I tired that, it gets bad expression errors on the if inc = "something" line.

[aratti]

I tired that, it gets bad expression errors on the if inc = "something" line

"something" must be replaced with an ascii character or its decimal equivalent.

For instance:

HSERIN [Inc]
	HSEROUT ["Tx Received", 10]
	if inc = "S" then goto here
        else
        goto there
        endif

If you Tx the letter "S" then your progam will jump to label "here" and execute the code in it, else it will jump to the label "there" and execute a different code. (if you make it different)

You have to fix which ascii character you will send to go to label "here" since any other ascii character will take to label "there"

Al.

[GatorGuy]

When I use single letters or numbers it works like a charm but I would like to use longer strings such as "A23". Anything longer then one character and I get errors. Is this a limitation of picbasic?

[Acetronics2]

Hi,

I think the answer simply is in your Manual ... HSerin Modifiers section.

Alain

[Charles Linquis]

The following is a technique that I got from Darrel Taylor. It will input a string, and search it for any number of strings.

Note that the "timeout" in the ArrayRead command is the number of characters in the string you are looking for during that pass.

HSERIN2 300,InputTimeout,[Str CharArray\12\10] ; Take in max 12 chars optionally terminated by LF.

ARRAYREAD CharArray,19,FailedFirst,[WAIT ("FirstStringToLookFor")]
Goto FoundFirstItem

FailedFirst:
ARRAYREAD CharArray,21,FailedSecond,[WAIT (SecondStringToLookFor")]
Goto FoundSecondItem

FailedSecond:

[Charles Linquis]

I should always learn to read my text before hitting SUBMIT. In the example, I have it inputting only 12 chars, while it is testing for a substring of 19 or 21 chars - but you get the idea.

[GatorGuy]

Thank you! I will give this a try.