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I have a Processing program that reads data sent to the serial port by an Arduino. When I go to device manager it shows that the Arduino is plugged into COM 4, however in order to get Processing to read the data the number I need for the COM in the following line is 2: 

String portName = Serial.list()[2]

Why do the numbers not match?

Thanks!

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  • what numbers are you talking about?
    – jsotola
    Aug 3, 2018 at 1:08
  • Serial.list()[2] can easily refer to COM4 as well.
    – Dmitry Grigoryev
    Aug 7, 2018 at 11:31

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If you print out portName it should be COM4 it seems you must have 3 COM ports on your machine otherwise you would use index 0; Serial.List() appears to return an array or list which you are taking the third item located at index 2.

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  • Indeed. The numbers do match. But you are trying to match a number with a name, and those do not match. Or are you Number 6?
    – Majenko
    Aug 2, 2018 at 21:41

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