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I have a text file with hex values formatted in the following style:

A0 3F 55 01 00 C7 55 01 00 C7 AA 29 71 11 00 0B
00 C7 AA 29 71 1F AA 29 71 11 55 01 A0 3F 55 DC
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How can I save this data into my Arduino's Flash (to save RAM)? What libraries are needed? Is there any tool that can automatically create code for this purpose?

After I save this data into the Arduino's Flash, I want to send the data via Serial. I have to send it as binary.

A solution without saving it into the Flash would be also OK.

I am using an Arduino Due.

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  • Flash program memory or flash EEPROM?
    – Nick Gammon ♦
    Jan 3, 2017 at 9:43
  • Flash program memory.
    – William Roy
    Jan 3, 2017 at 9:51
  • Use objcopy to turn it into a .o file, fabricate an appropriate .h file containing the symbols in the .o file, and then compile against the .h and link against the .o.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Jan 3, 2017 at 10:28
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    Replace the spaces with ,, prepend 0x to the start of each pair, so you get 0xA0, 0x3F, 0x55, ..., then wrap it in const byte myData[] PROGMEM = { ... your data ... }; - Personally I would write a small script to do it in Perl or PHP (I loathe Python with a passion).
    – Majenko ♦
    Jan 3, 2017 at 11:27

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If I understand your question correctly, you need to integrate this data into a .ino script. Probably as a byte array. Then the script can read the array and Serial.write its content.

You could write a small tool in Python or else on your computer, that takes the text file and converts it into a .h header. Include that into your .ino script. Or use your favorite text editor to format the data into C++ code, and copy/paste that into your script.

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