Help with Serial strings

[StefanL38]

@delucaide

I though there was something more simple using String.

The price of using the advantage of beeing small (= using a cheap microcontroller) is a bit more complex coding compared to a windows PC or a RaspBerry Pi

using String on a microcontroller is a bad idea as String eats up al memory over time making your controller crash.

If you really want to have something similar to standard String use SafeString
almost the same comfort without the danger of program crashes

SafeString even has non-blocking receiving of strings over the serial interface.

You can install the SafeString-library with the library-manager
documentation is here
https://www.forward.com.au/pfod/ArduinoProgramming/SafeString/index.html

Non-blocking receiving of commands over serial interface using the SafeString-library [code example]

This is another small tutorial that shall demonstrate how to receive commands over a serial interface in a non-blocking manner using the SafeString-library If you are in a hurry to throw together code as fast as possible jump to posting # 2 non-blocking means the code has a fast running function loop() that is able to check for button-presses check for IO-pin changing their state read in sensors etc and in parallel listen to the serial interface all the time and in case all characters of a…

best regards Stefan