SERIN: SKIP without WAIT?

xanatos

Normally I'd just breadboard this and test but I'm not able to do that at the moment - quick question - Can SKIP be used without WAIT in a SERIN command?

Right now I have this:

SERIN Ctx, T9600, [WAIT("R"), SKIP 3, STR serStr\10]

Will this work:

SERIN Ctx, T9600, [SKIP 24, STR serStr\10]

This is of course assuming the datastring being SERIN'd is a guaranteed fixed-length with data positions being absolutely fixed within the stream...

The editor doesn't reject the format when I go to look at the memory map, so I'm guessing it should work. I've just never seen a skip without a wait :-)

Thanks!

Dave

PJAllen

Sure, if you're good with disregarding the first three characters that come along after issuing that command, regardless, and then whatever happens happens.

[ May I ask why you're asking? ]

Mike Green

SKIP and WAIT each do what they're defined to do ...

SKIP ignores the number of characters specified ... without looking at them ... with complete disregard for what they are

WAIT ignores all incoming characters that do not match the specified character(s). Once a match occurs, the WAIT terminates with the next character processed normally

xanatos

Hi all, thanks. Sounds like what I was hoping to hear. PJ - the system I'm receiving the data from - newer units being added that have a different letter in their serial number. I've been being lazy and just listening for the R in the s/n, skipping the next three characters and just grabbing the last three digits of the s/n to ID which unit is sending. But to the best of my knowledge, data lengths and positions are fixed, so all I should need to do is skip the specified number of characters.

Thanks!

D