sms.read()

Hardware Arduino GSM Shield
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I'm trying to follow the SMS read tutorial and don't understand the following line:

// Read message bytes and print them
    while(c=sms.read())
      Serial.print(c);

What is c exactly? Is it each character from the message being printed individually or all of them in a character array? How could I combine all the characters into a character sequence. Any explanation would be appreciated.

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c is a char that is read from circular buffer of the library. c is each character.

When you receive a SMS message, it content is saved in a circular buffer to be read by sketch.