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I'm working with the web client example code (http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/DnsWebClient). I have tweaked it slightly, so that I can (theoretically) get a specific value contained in the html the arduio "GET"s. The part I modified is as follows:

Code:

{
   // if there are incoming bytes available
  // from the server, read them and print them:
  
   if (client.available()) {
     char c = client.read();
     String response = "";
     response = response + c;
     Serial.print(response);
     String output = response.substring(10);
     Serial.print(output);
   }

The printing of "response" to the serial output works, I get the HTTP headers and the full content of the HTML page. The printint of "output" however just returns a blank line. Shouldn't it output everyhting after the first 10 character's of what "response" outputs?

[Reply #1 on:]

No.

Code:

     String response = "";
     response = response + c;
     Serial.print(response);
     String output = response.substring(10);

The variable "response" will only ever have a single character in it, which you just put there.

You are seeing more things in the serial output because this bit of code happens to be called many times.

[Reply #2 on:]

Well, you are totally correct. I've been staring at code for too long today. I've got it workign now with:

Code:

void loop()
 {
   // if there are incoming bytes available
  // from the server, read them and print them:
 
   if (client.available()) {
     char c = client.read();
     response = response + c;
   }
 
  // if the server's disconnected, stop the client:
   if (!client.connected()) {
     Serial.println();
     Serial.println("disconnecting.");
     unsigned int subStart = response.indexOf("Request:") + 10;
     String output = response.substring(subStart, (subStart+1));
     Serial.print(output);
     client.stop();
 
    // do nothing forevermore:
     while(true);
   }
 }

Thanks for the help.