[Gambas-user] Serial I/O with byte data

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 14 May 2017, alexchernoff wrote:
> Good day all, 
> 
> Anyone know how to read data received on serial port into an array of bytes
> instead of string?
>

I think that's not possible.

> String gets unreadable binary characters, so how can I 
> put them into byte[] or so? 
> 

This shouldn't be a problem. Gambas Strings are not null-terminated and can
contain any sequence of bytes, which includes non-printable characters (which
I think is what you meant by "unreadable" characters).

If you insist on a Byte[], read it into a String and use Byte[].FromString(),
but there is no way to go around the String, AFAICT (and that is because
there is no need to, as Strings can handle binary data just fine).

Regards,
Tobi

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