serial.Print not working

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1

Why am I not getting the letter "P" on the serial monitor, instead I am getting 80 which is ascii for letter "P" ??
can anybody help.

Thanks

void setup()

{

Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
byte ampm;
ampm ='P';

Serial.println(ampm);
}

2

Try double quotes?
ampm ="P";

3

Or char ampm = 'P';

4

Interesting, three of four methods apparently send the byte representing the "P", and one method sends the decimal representation of the byte representing the "P".

void setup()
 
{
 
  Serial.begin(9600);
} 
 void loop()
{
  //char ampm;
  byte ampm;
  ampm ='P';
    
 Serial.print(ampm); 
 //Serial.write(ampm);
 Serial.println();
}
5

Thank your for your suggestions, I changed my code and it works now.
if (ampm ==1)
{
Serial.print("PM");
}
else
{
Serial.print("AM");
}

6

If you maintain a boolean variable true if PM false if AM then you could use the ternary operator.

boolean pm = true;

Serial.print( pm ? "PM" : "AM" ); // will print PM in this case

That is a functional equivalent to :

if (ampm ==1)
    {
    Serial.print("PM");
    }
    else
    {
    Serial.print("AM");
   }
7

Maybe:

void setup()
 {
   Serial.begin(9600);
}
 
void loop()
{
  byte ampm;
  ampm ='P';
 
 Serial.println( (char) ampm);
}