Visual Basic Expert

[mister_e]

you'll have to parse the string on the PC side. look for instr MID$, LEFT$ well at least those VB command.

Also The Bruce Website may give you some pointers...
http://www.rentron.com/parsingstrings.htm

Say thanks to Bruce to provide such great free stuff

Personnaly i never send preamble, just send all value to PC then parse the string. USE DEC3 for byte, DEC5 for word ensure to have a fix string format

a var byte
b var byte
c var word
a=10
b=100
c=12345

hserout [dec3 a, dec3 b, dec5 c]

this will send 01010012345 in a fix string format (length). Easy huh!