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the following code has a compiler error, which I don't quite understand

Code:

int serialArrayOne[]  = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.write(serialArrayOne,8);
}

error is:
sketch_jan15a.cpp: In function ‘void loop()’:
sketch_jan15a.cpp:19:32: error: no matching function for call to ‘HardwareSerial::write(int [8], int)’
/usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/HardwareSerial.h:58:20: note: candidates are: virtual size_t HardwareSerial::write(uint8_t)
/usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Print.h:50:20: note:                 virtual size_t Print::write(const uint8_t*, size_t)
/usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Print.h:49:12: note:                 size_t Print::write(const char*)

The manual says
Serial.write(buf, len)
buf: an array to send as a series of bytes
len: the length of the buffer

Anyone care to enlighten me

Cheers
Kim

[Reply #1 on:]

From the perspective of Serial.write, a "buffer" is an array of bytes (uint8_t or byte).  This...

Code:

int serialArrayOne[]  = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};

...is an array of integers (int).


This sends the array as you have defined it...

Code:

 Serial.write( (uint8_t*)serialArrayOne, sizeof(serialArrayOne) );

This defines serialArrayOne as a "buffer"...

Code:

byte serialArrayOne[]  = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};

[Reply #2 on:]

Cheers for that.
Coming from a 8bit assembly world, C can be a bit hard to to interpret at time
int used to be a byte for me

getting there
:-)

[Reply #3 on:]

Code:

Serial.write( (uint8_t*)serialArrayOne, sizeof(serialArrayOne) );

That, however, is unlikely to send your ints in a way you expect. It is "casting" them to a different data type.

If you want to send those ints (16-bit signed numbers) as such, it would be better in your case to set up a loop, and in that loop do a Serial.print of each element, with something in-between (like a space, comma, newline, etc.).