Parsing a serial byte?

[Terry Glenn Capps]

I am using PowerBasic Console Compiler5 to receive some data from a serial port. The data is actually a set of 8 bits, each of which represents a bit of hardware data. Apparently PowerBasic can only receive data from a serial port as a character. The debugger shows the value of a typical character as "<03>". I am trying to decode the character to obtain the original bits. I have tried VAL and I have tried parsing the character using a MID statement, but no joy.

Does anyone know how I can obtain the original bit data?

[Marco Pontello]

You can test a bit with a logical AND, or check the BIT function.

Bye!

[John Gleason]

Terry, you can use:

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
    LOCAL sb AS STRING, bb AS BYTE
    sb = CHR$(23)
    bb = 23
    ? BIN$(CVBYT(sb), 8)
    ? BIN$(bb, 8)
    WAITKEY$

END FUNCTION

[Cliff Nichols]

Serial Port

I am not sure how PBCC handles Serial Ports (maybe I should check into it more)

That aside, what is the piece of hardware that you are communicating with? (Communication parameters change depending on the device)

[Terry Glenn Capps]

Parsing serial data

The device that I am communicating with is a DLP-USB245M-G which allows 8-bit hardware data to be read by a computer via a USB cable. FTDI's VCP (Virtual COM Port) drivers allow the PC to see the data as though it was connected to a COM (RS-232) port. I have a microcontroller project with data that I want to place in a log file on the PC. I also want to display information encoded in the data on the screen.

John Gleason provided me with the statement that I had overlooked, CVBYT, which will convert the string data to a numeric form.

Thanks to all who replied!

Terry