Questions tagged [string]
A sequence of characters -- including letters, numbers and symbols -- often used for representing information in a human-readable format.
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How to convert a String to Hex array
I am trying use a HMI display. If I want to send a data, for example I want to write "TOPWAY" to 0x00000080 address it should like that:
Serial.write(0xaa); // packet head
Serial....
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Using index of to search for multiple characters
In my Arduino project, a string will be received. I understand using .indexof to find the placement of a certain character in the string. My problem is that I need to find the first occurrence of any ...
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Find OK or ERROR in serial string
I am trying to figure out how to capture the OK or the ERROR from a SIM800l.
I have tried
mySerial.println("AT");
while (mySerial.available() > 0 ) {
String str = mySerial.readString();
...
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Using String instead of C string, yet another attempt to touch a loaded issue
I've been reading a lot over the years why we should not use the notorious String class and how heap fragmentation is bad practice and not professional and we should never use it in our programs or we'...
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invalid conversion from 'char' to 'const char*' [-fpermissive] on a string
I am compiling some code I didn't write, and it bombs out with the error message
invalid conversion from 'char' to 'const char*' [-fpermissive]
on the line
if (loginPassword == '\0') loginPassword = &...
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How to properly handle the Arduino String
I've read that the Arduino String is bad as it causes memory fragmentation, so I try to avoid them mostly. But I still have some occurences where I'm not quite sure if they are ok after all.
The first ...
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Serial1.readString() on arduino mega returns an empty string
i have been trying to read text message from a sim module over serial1 of arduino mega, when i use the code msg = Serial1.readString(); the readString return an empty string i dont know if this is a ...
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Arduino Serial.readString() trouble
Hello everyone I write my code and have some troubles.
When I write on in my serial monitor my buzzer condition wasn't changed.
Can you help me realize the reason. I wrote code with int type and it ...
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Substring: What is causing my output to be truncated?
I suspect that I might be using too many resources, because of the strings, but I am new to Arduino, so not sure where I am going wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
What it should do when complete:...
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Convert string to integer
I'm using two ESp32 in a server and client configuration and i'm sending data between them in form of strings but i want to convert the recieved data which is fom of strings but it contains numbers ...
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Get a specific item from comma separated text
I use bluetooth (works like serial monitor).
Let me say i send a text to my hc-05 (same as sending to serial monitor)
My current code is displaying text from serial monitor/HC-05 TO LCD
#include <...
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Remove unwanted characters from char type
I'm working on an ESP8266 module that needs to fetch date data from worldtimeapi, everything works fine but the problem is How do I strip of the time field off the datetime JSON response without loop.
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Can't test for equality with string received from bluetooth module
I am trying to keep the program within a loop until the user inputs "ok" on the Bluefruit Connect App. I use the readString() function on the bluetooth object (ble) to read from it. Before ...
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How to read incoming HEX values from Serial.read() method?
Brief description about the problem History
Communicating with a old VersaStat II used GPIB port but the GPIB ports PCI card stopped working but there was a another port 25 pin rs232 Serial ...
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Arduino - Function -> return Cstr instead of string
I have following function for my Arduino:
String readLine() {
String received = "";
char ch;
while (myFile.available()) {
ch = myFile.read();
if (ch == '\n' or ch == '\r') {
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Firmata.SendString doesn't work with specific `char` variables
I have a Firmata sketch, that accepts string messages, partitions them and sends its' parts back to a Firmata client program. My problem is certainly at the sketch's side. The problem is that Firmata....
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String comparison problem
I have this callback function in my Firmata sketch. It receives a string as a character array and does something with it. The problem is, that the string is being sent to the Arduino in T\0h\0i\0s\0 ...
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Any explanation for this behavior?
For the below code snippet
const char* fr_fbdb(char tag[30]) // fn for retrieving data
{
char full_path[120];
const char *_dt ;
strcpy(full_path , base_path);
strcat(full_path , tag);
...
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Erratic behavior in String based functions
I've been working on a cipher based project, and I wanted to prep the encrypted string for use with the RF24 library. Since the payload size for the RF24 module is 32 bytes, I wanted to stick with ...
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Error initializer-string for array of chars is too long using ESP32 Webserver
i tried to use an asynchronic webserver for a new project with friends using this tutorial.
We want to run an FFT while also changing some settings via the webserver. Since the tutorial only put code ...
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What is the purpose of F() and FPSTR() in ESP8266WebServer -> FSBrowser?
I found this code sample from the FSBrowser (Flash File System) example in the ESP8266WebServer library:
replyServerError(FPSTR(FS_INIT_ERROR));
replyBadRequest(F("DIR ARG MISSING"));
I was ...
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Why are characters with value above 127 “padded” with 1s to be 16 bits long, while ones with values 0-127 aren't?
I am using the Arduino IDE to run and monitor, with an Arduino Nano clone.
This code shows what I mean by the question:
char foo = 127;
char bar = 128;
Serial.println(String(foo, BIN));
Serial.println(...
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Reading a string from Firebase and storing it as a CString
I have a mobile app (done using MIT App Inventor) storing some values to a Firebase database. App inventor stores all the values as strings (i.e. with quotes, and strings have quotes enclosed within ...
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incompatible types in assignment of 'const String' to 'char [32] using server.arg
I am trying to create a class and getting getting the error
incompatible types in assignment of 'const String' to 'char [32]
when I declare
char inString[32];
and try to set it as
inString = server....
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strcmp doesn't seem to work
I'm trying to compare a char array that I'm assembling to a string and I'm having trouble comparing the strings.
I'm getting the data for the char array as a set of bytes and I'm compiling it into a ...
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Why use \" in arduino code?
While working with JSON parsing I noticed that the char type data string is written like this:
char json[] = "{\"sensor\":\"gps\",\"time\":1351824120,\"data\&...
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Is there a limitation of how many instances of the `String` class?
Platform
Attiny85 with AttinyCores
1306 OLED i2c with Tiny4KDisplay
Goal
using a joystick for menu navigation
up/down choose
left enter (not finished yet)
right back (not finished yet)
inverse ...
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Properly escaping very large strings
On an esp8266 I want to create a little webserver that shows me a dashboard with charts and stuff. For this I wanna include the echarts-library as it works offline. To access it the only way I can see ...
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Converting c string to integer to unsigned char
I'm Trying to grapple with types between two different libraries.
The gist is that I'm using the ArduinoWebsockets library to receive information coming from my api that I then want to render out to ...
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Comparing a String after reading it from Serial fails
I have bought an Arduino starter kit online, everything seem to work but when I try for example to use ifs (and other conditional statements), the LEDs do not turn on. Here is a code for a little ...
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Converting 8 bit binary to a hexadecimal pair as unsigned char
I have a function:
void Epd::SendData(unsigned char data) {
digitalWrite(dc_pin, HIGH);
SpiTransfer(data);
}
At the moment I am hardcoding data sent to it by calculating on paper and then writing ...
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Read Comma Separated String
I have a string that looks like this "10.00,20.00,-50.00," in which these are angle values and they have 2 decimals and can be negative. I want to separate them into 3 separate floats. Here ...
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Arduino keypad variables to serial port
I've been trying, for over a week now, to create a program that will store my keypad presses into variable, and with a press of an enter, it will switch to the next variable to store the presses. The ...
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Cannot compile F() macro with R“string”
I am trying to compile the following code:
logger.log_info(F(R"(some text here that may take
multiple lines
and here it is done.)"));
But the compiler exists with the following ...
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Why isn't this EEPROM.get() working?
I am trying to save a string/char to EEPROM with EEPROM.put() and then get the value, but it doesn't work and I get a blank value when I do a EEPROM.get().
I remember this is how it worked on arduino ...
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Float array to comma separated string
I have a loop command reading temperature sensor data from 8 thermistors and are storing them as floats into an array. Instead of printing to Serial on each iteration, I would like to create a comma ...
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Reading Serial String Gives Null Lines with JSSC
I need to send serial data to my Arduino UNO from within a java application. I am using JSSC for this.
I wanted to verify that my data actually arrives correctly to the arduino before going to the ...
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How do i improve this Code? (or how to pass a Char String into a Function to behave like a Variable)
Sorry i am a beginner and amateur when it comes to coding, can somebody help me to make the code inside the loop() less "monkey-like" by using a proper function?
I have tried a lot and at ...
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How can I copy and compare a string?
I have the following code (I realise String isn't very efficient, but this sketch doesn't have to be)
debugOutput gets called every loop, but I only want to spam the serial bus (to debug) if the ...
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HC-12 problem with reading momentarily strings
I'm new here, so I hope my question is not naive.
I'm using Arduino mega connected with a pulse sensor and a GPS (and other things that are not related to our problem), pulse sensor and GPS data are ...
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arduino split string into an array [duplicate]
i have problem with change srting to array
my string input is like this B109DAE1B71B638E it come from Serial.readString
and i want to change this string to array byte like this
byte in01[] = { 0xB1, ...
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Convert Binary to char
I'm reading a text file saved on my ESP8266 device (using LittleFS).
while (myFile.available()) {
Serial.write(myFile.read());
}
My goal is to save file content ( each line ) to a String /...
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String(int) function stopping the Arduino
Well I am trying make an application with arduino leonardo and GSM Shield. There are conditions if, else if, else .. etc
if (smsMetni.indexOf("DURUM") != -1) {
Serial.println("SMS ...
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Convert string to array
I have a project and i need to convert string (contain numbers and letters) to array
String name = "s111, s222, bbbb,cccc ";
and i want
array[0] = s111;
array[1] = s222;
array[2] = bbbb;
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How to use “+” character as a String
Well I am trying to save phone number as a string. For ease of use I want to add "+" character programmatically. Like this:
String cepNo ="+" + "901234567";
But program ...
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Arduino blocks when serving web pages
I have an Arduino sketch that serves an HTML web page using the standard Ethernet library (https://github.com/arduino-libraries/Ethernet) and the Ethernet Web Server library (https://github.com/khoih-...
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.toFloat() giving incorrect anwsers
I am broadcasting a fixed value float over a HC-12 radio which is then received by another HC-12 radio. I am then trying to convert that String to a Float which requires 6 decimal places. However, ...
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Add char at intervals in a String
I'm trying to create a function that will take a String as an input, and at every 20 characters, it will instert "\n" so that the string doesn't go off the side of my screen (I'm using an ...
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Having trouble with sprintf function and string class
in my code, I was using string class to make an array to store my menu items
String menu[2] = {{"Menu 1"}, {"Menu2"}};
How do I convert this into char arrays and how do I call ...
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How do you make a Class variable array bigger?
I am making an infrared macro-keyboard, I want to store Unicode for the Keyboard class in an array inside a class I made called Keybindand to allow the user to program as many outputs as they want, I ...
