convert one sting into different char's

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hello friends,

I have made a chess engine. This engine gives me a string of information of a move after i have made a move.

a sample of this information could be something like "e2e4". Which would mean that a piece has moved from the e2 square to the e4 square.

I am now trying to catagorize this information into 4 differnent chars, but i fail to do this on my own.

So really what i want is this:

  • I want the arduino to read the string of information
  • After that, i want the arduino to sort this string in 4 different chars:
  • And after that i want the arduino to give a sign that it has read the string succesfully.

Could anyone help me get here?

thanks in advnance!

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Please post your code in tags.
Are you using Sting (uppercase S), or a C-sting char array[] ?

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Have you the opportunity to formulate the message as e2,e4 - that would make the parsing easier. Have a look at the parse example in Serial Input Basics

What is the longest message that you will want to parse?

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I’m guessing but chessboard is 8x8 so 64 squares. And move would be one coordinate to another. So total of A-H and 1-8 to another.

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How do the characters get into the Arduino?

Search Google to find "serial input basics" on this forum.