How to use Arrays Using Pic Basic Pro(need help)

[Darrel Taylor]

Was getting pretty tired during that last post, so cut it off a little short. But, now that I've had a good Day's sleep, let's see if I can tackle the rest.

You're probably out of town by now, but that's ok. It'll still be here when you get back.

Also why do you have 2 endif statements?

Good catch, the first one was supposed to be an ELSE.(DOH!) I modified the original post.

SEROUT2 PORTD.0, 813, [STR htxt\StrLen,13,10] ;; May I still use SEROUT or Must I use SEROUT2. ( [STR htxt\StrLen,13,10] I do not full Understand this portion could you explain to me what this is doing?)

No, you don't have to use SEROUT2. It just makes it a little easier, so I tend to use it more often.

The STR-ing function can send the entire contents of an array with one easy statement. In the case of STR htxt\StrLen, it will send the number of bytes specified in the StrLen variable from the htxt array.

It's pretty much the same as ...

For X = 0 to StrLen
    SEROUT PORTD.0, T1200,[htxt(X)]
NEXT X

It's up to you which one you prefer. But STR isn't avaialable with SEROUT.

And ..., oh I guess that's all there was. Must have been really tired.
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[T.Jackson]

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