print strings on Serial Monitor

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I was wondering if you could print some strings (not just variables) on Serial Monitor. So suppose i want to record the number of sensor hit on the wall and i want to print the current time on timer and the number of sensor hits but before the values, i want to have like some sort of strings.

eg..
Current Time: time (timer variable)
Hit Counts: count (sensor count variable)

Is this possible? How do you code that? Would that be something like Serial.println("Current Time: "&time)? or similar to this?

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Similar, but not exactly. You can't do concatenation within the Serial functions themselves, but you can chain print() and println() to get the output you want.

Serial.print("Current Time"); //Not println(), or you'll get a carriage return and line feed.
Serial.println(time);
3

Probably better to add a space at the end of the string:

Serial.print("Current Time "); //Not println(), or you'll get a carriage return and line feed.

otherwise it will look like this
CurrentTime3872

4

Gotta leave the newbs something to figure out themselves. :wink:

5

All in all she got amazingly good service from you two - I was expecting to see a terse post consisting of a link to the reference docs on Serial.print.

6

So, Serial.print("Current Time: "); Serial.println(time);
would give "Current Time: 4555" in a single line?

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So, Serial.print("Current Time: "); Serial.println(time);
would give "Current Time: 4555" in a single line?

Yes.
Here's a useful reference.

I was expecting to see a terse post consisting of a link to the reference docs on Serial.print.

It's a sunny day, and I'm a sucker for an Italian accent.

8

just a quick one..
Serial.print("Current Time: ");
Serial.println(time);
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Current Speed: ");
Serial.println(speed);

would give:
Current Time: 5466
Current Speed: 255
??
so we use println(); or print('\n'); for new line?

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println prints whatever it is given, and then prints a newline.

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and

Serial.print("Current Time: "); 
Serial.println(time);
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Current Speed: ");
Serial.println(speed);

will give:
Current time: time here

Current Speed: speed here