Servo Control via Serial USB

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Please forgive my novice coding skills here. I'm trying to create a servo control that takes in angles input from the Serial Monitor, and turns the servo to that given position. For some reason, whenever I try to type in a number with two digits, the code reads that as two separate numbers and turns the servo to each digit as an angle (from 0 to 9 degrees). I suspect this is a simple coding issue, but any help or advice would be appreciated. Code is appended below.

GEP

Code:

#include <Servo.h>

Servo ServoA;

void setup() 
  {
    Serial.begin(9600);
    ServoA.attach(9);

    Serial.print('Ready for angle prompt!');
    Serial.println();

    Serial.print("Please assign an angle for Servo A [0 to 180 degrees]");
    Serial.println();
  }
  
void loop() 
  {
    if (Serial.available() > 00)
      {
          int AngValA = Serial.read();
          if (AngValA >= '0' && AngValA <= '180' ) 
          {
           AngValA = AngValA - '0';
           AngValA = map(AngValA, 0, 180, 0, 180);
           ServoA.write(AngValA);
           Serial.print("Servo A set to: ");
           Serial.print(AngValA, DEC);
           Serial.println();
          }    
      }
  }
2

Sorry, just realized i left in a line of junk there. Ignore the line;

           AngValA = map(AngValA, 0, 180, 0, 180);
3

What you type in the Serial Monitor are not numbers. It is strings of text. Those strings of text get sent to the serial port, and read one character at a time by the Arduino.

I find it difficult to believe, since this questions is asked at least twice a week, that you could not find a solution while searching the forum.