About Serial.read

[coos]

The document show me that Serial.read returns the first byte of incoming serial data available .
ex:  I send "hello" to arduino,it returns me ony "h".
Is there any way to get more byte per one time?
thanks.

[AWOL]

No.

[coos]

[AWOL]

If you look at Serial.read, it returns an int.
The only reason it doesn't return a char is because if there is no data to read, it returns -1.
It can't return more than one characer at a time.

Is that a problem for you?

[pluggy]

Hint : you read it more than once........

[coos]

thank u for reply!
last question,i know it returns int,so how to change it to character in the arduino?

[AWOL]

With a simple 'char' cast.

[coos]

could you show me a example?

[coos]

OK,I see now,thank u

[zoomkat]

Below is some simple test code that captures the serial input into a string and sends it back to the serial monitor.

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// zoomkat 8-6-10 serial I/O string test
// type a string in serial monitor. then send or enter
// for IDE 0019 and later

String readString;

void setup() {
     Serial.begin(9600);
       Serial.println("serial test 0021"); // so I can keep track of what is loaded
       }

void loop() {

       while (Serial.available()) {
       delay(10);  
         if (Serial.available() >0) {
       char c = Serial.read();
       readString += c;}
       }
       
     if (readString.length() >0) {
     Serial.println(readString);
     
     readString="";
     }
  }


[cellage]

int x;
char y;
y = char(x) ;

to convert from asci to char

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char c;
c = Serial.read(); // assume it reads N
y = c -'0'; // or else it will be 78



does this help :-/?