Serial Input - Parsing multiple formats

Robin2:
Thoughts on how to detect this?

You seem to have missed the start of my sentence "you will need very extensive (and complex) code"

The point I was trying to make is "don't go there"

...R

A generic sentence with no explanation. It wasn't missed. It was skipped. I don't know why it would be extensive or complex, therefore I am going there until I determine or it is shown to be too complex or extensive.

Isn't error checking 90% of programming?