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-Hello!

I am sorry for this question, but I simply cannot find a solution.
Is there a simple way to mimic this java code?

Code:

int myVar = 2;
System.out.println("My variable is: "+myVar);

Serial.println("My variable is: "......?);


Yet again, sorry.

[Reply #1 on:]

The traditional way to format strings in C is sprintf. An example below:

#include <stdio.h>

#define MAX_OUT_CHARS 16  //max nbr of characters to be sent on any one serial command

char   buffer[MAX_OUT_CHARS + 1];  //buffer used to format a line (+1 is for trailing 0)

     sprintf(buffer,"My variable is: %d",myVar);  
     Serial.print(buffer);
 

But there are lots of reasons to avoid it. It links in a huge amount of code (almost 2k as I recall), its not very intuitive to use, and if you overflow the buffer it creates elusive bugs.

I usually do the following:

Serial.print("My variable is: ");
Serial.println(myVar);


In my current app, I added the following function to format data for my specific requirement.

void formatPrint( char *leftStr, int MyVar1, char *sepStr, int MyVar2, char *rightStr){
      Serial.print (leftStr);
      Serial.print (MyVar1);
      Serial.print (sepStr);
      Serial.print (MyVar2);
      Serial.println (rightStr);
}

 Usage: formatPrint(“My var 1 is: “, 100, “, and var 2 is: “, 200, “.”);

[Reply #2 on:]

//SOLVED

char string[5] = "val";
int i=50;

//:build string+int
string[3] = i;

[Reply #3 on:]

 That only works if your string never changes in length and the integer value is between 0 and 9, is that what you wanted?

[Reply #4 on:]

That only works if your string never changes in length and the integer value is between 0 and 9, is that what you wanted?

No, not what I wanted, but it was what I needed, for now, anyway.


Any ideas?

[Reply #5 on:]

You can always just do:

Serial.print("my variable is:");
Serial.println(var);

[Reply #6 on:]

he's right, thats what i do....

[Reply #7 on:]

Any ideas?

any reason why one of the three suggestions in reply#1 are not suitable?

[Reply #8 on:]

Here's another vote for

Code:

Serial.print("My variable is: ");
Serial.println(myVar);

It's hard to get easier than that.

Regards,
David

[Reply #9 on:]

There is a perfectly resonable reason for why sending my String and variable in to different method calls won't work.

I wrote the reason in #2 but i see I deleted it. Sorry for that. And I also see that I used Serial.print() as an axample.
I thought that it was easier to get a 'problem solved' when using a method we're all familiar with.


I do not use the serial class.
This is my function:

void sendToSerProxy(char *s) {
      while (*s) {
          printByte(*s++);
        }
        printByte(0);
}

This is why I need the  string and var inside the same char array.

Of course I know about doing it in separate method calls.  :

[Reply #10 on:]

You're probably best off doing something like this then:

Serial.print("My variable is: ");
Serial.print(myVar);
Serial.print(0, BYTE);

[Reply #11 on:]

it's easy to send different data formats to the serial port, just send them one by one.
But it's not feasible if you want to put everything to a string then send to a LCD module.
I found if you want to append text to an existing string you have to use strcat(string,value)
but how can i convert an integer to a string before appending it?

I tried the itoa function but it seems the arduino freezes with this instruction, even if it gets compiled. And I don't know anything about C++

In VB all of this would require this thing...

temperature = temperature + str$(value)