groundFungus:
Yes I do. I often use Processing to send data to an Arduino. On the Arduino end I use the methods for reception as shown in Robin2's serial input basics. I format the data packets (ASCII strings) to be sent by Processing so that they can be read by the serial input basics methods. That means a start marker ('<') followed by data items separated by commas followed by an end marker ('>'). Then on the Arduino end I use the appropriate method to read in the data packet, parse the data and convert the data items as necessary to be stored in appropriate variables.
okay why didn't you guys just say that, that was what i needed. I will look at that topic again