manipulating data from serial device

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Hi. My goal is to extract a number out of a line of data from a serial device.
I have a device's rs232 connected to a rs232 to TTL converter and then to my Arduino mega. Using this IDE example code I connect to the device and I can see the device sending the data on the IDE comm terminal.

void setup() {
  // initialize both serial ports:
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial1.begin(19200);
}

void loop() {
  // read from port 1, send to port 0:
  if (Serial1.available()) {
    int inByte = Serial1.read();
    Serial.write(inByte);
  }

  // read from port 0, send to port 1:
  if (Serial.available()) {
    int inByte = Serial.read();
    Serial1.write(inByte);
  }
}

The input from the serial device looks like this on my serial comm terminal. It's a constant feed from the serial device.

2020/07/20 14:12:28 0 D 141.57 Ft
2020/07/20 14:12:29 0 D 141.57 Ft
2020/07/20 14:12:31 0 D 141.57 Ft
...etc

What I want to do is extract the last number (currently 141.57) so I can send it out to a spreadsheet on my PC.
I've tried making inByte into an array using int inByte[] = {Serial1.read()};
And then Serial.write(inByte[1]);
to see if anything is getting stored in the array but I get nothing.
Can you please point me in the right direction for getting that number? :slight_smile:
Thanks.

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Have a look at the examples in Serial Input Basics - simple reliable non-blocking ways to receive data. There is also a parse example to illustrate how to extract numbers from the received text.

...R