progmem function

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I am working on creating a function that reads strings from progmem and serial prints them. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but my function is spitting out every string in progmem all at once without printing the variable that follows.

#include <avr/pgmspace.h>

#define line 1
#define no_line 0

//speak function
prog_char string_0[] PROGMEM = "Finished Initializing Ready for commands";   // "String 0" etc are strings to store - change to suit.
prog_char string_1[] PROGMEM = "Temp(C):";
prog_char string_2[] PROGMEM = "Pressure(Pa):";
prog_char string_3[] PROGMEM = "Humidity ";
prog_char string_4[] PROGMEM = "Compass Heading = ";
prog_char string_5[] PROGMEM = " degrees";

PROGMEM const char *string_table[] = 	   // change "string_table" name to suit
{   
  string_0, string_1, string_2, string_3, string_4, string_5 
};

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  //speak(0,1,line);
}
void loop()
{
  speak(1,1,no_line);
  Serial.println("21");
  speak(2,1,no_line);
  Serial.println("40000");
  speak(3,1,no_line);
  Serial.println("50");
  delay(3000);
}

void speak(int string_num, int num_strings, int ln)
{
  char write_buffer[44];
  
  if (ln = 0)
  {
    for (string_num; string_num <= string_num + (num_strings - 1) ; string_num++)
    {
      strcpy_P(write_buffer, (char*)pgm_read_word(&(string_table[string_num]))); // Necessary casts and dereferencing, just copy. 
      Serial.print( write_buffer );
    }
  }
  if (ln = 1)
  {
    for (string_num; string_num <= string_num + (num_strings - 1) ; string_num++)
    {
      strcpy_P(write_buffer, (char*)pgm_read_word(&(string_table[string_num]))); // Necessary casts and dereferencing, just copy. 
      Serial.println( write_buffer );
    }
  }
}
2

LittleDice:
...is spitting out every string in progmem all at once...

If you want it to print one line, why are you calling a function that tells it to print not only a given line but all of the lines after that one? (See Footnote.)

Maybe you can try:

void loop()
{
    printPgmLine(1, no_line);
    Serial.println("21");
    printPgmLine(2, no_line);
    Serial.println("40000");
    printPgmLine(3, no_line);
    Serial.println("50");
    delay(3000);
}

void printPgmLine(int string_num, int ln)
{
    char write_buffer[44];
    strcpy_P(write_buffer, (char *)pgm_read_word(string_table + string_num));
    Serial.print(write_buffer);
    if (ln) {
        Serial.println();
    }
}

Or some such thing.

Regards,

Dave

Footnote:
The "speak" function that you showed us has undefined behavior since the loops can try to access memory beyond the end of the array of strings.