Code not showing Values on Second input

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I think the problem is that you leave 'ended' set to true when you process your first input. Then the second time through if there is not a full message in the buffer it gets processed anyway because 'ended' is true.

Add these lines:

            started = true;
            ended = false;   //////////  Add this
            index = 0;

 if (ended) 
  {
 ended = false;  /////////  Add this

Alternatively you can use a single state variable:

enum {WAITING_FOR_START, STARTED} state = WAITING_FOR_START;

switch (state)
    {
case WAITING_FOR_START:
    if (inChar == '<')
        {
        state = STARTED;
        index = 0;
        }
    break

case STARTED:

    if (inChar == '>')
        {
        inData[index] = '\0';  // Terminate the string
        process();
        state = WAITING_FOR_START;
        }
    else
        inData[index++] = inChar;
    break;
   }

Note that this code doesn't put the '<' and '>' in the buffer so they don't need to be removed in process().