I have a string coming from PC through serial to a microcontroller (Arduino), e.g.:
"HDD: 55 - CPU: 12.6 - Weather: Cloudy [...] $";
by this function I found:
String inputStringPC = "";
boolean stringCompletePC = false;
void serialEvent() {
while (Serial.available()) {
char inChar = (char)Serial.read();
inputStringPC += inChar;
if (inChar == '$') // end marker of the string
{
stringCompletePC = true;
}
}
}
I would like to extract the first number of it after the word HDD, CPU and also get the string after Weather (ie "cloudy"); my thinking is something like that:
int HDD = <function that does that>(Keyword HDD);
double CPU = <function that does that>(Keyword CPU);
char Weather[] = <function that does that>(Keyword Weather);
What is the right function to do that?
I looked into inputStringSerial.indexOf("HDD") but I am still a learner to properly understand what it does and don't know if theres a better function.
My approach yielded some syntax errors and confused me with the difference in usage between "String inputStringSerial" (class?) and "char inputStringSerial[]" (variable?). When I do 'string inputStringSerial = "";' PlatformIO complains that "string" is undefined. Any help to understand its usage here is greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch.
The String class provides member functions to search and copy the contents of the String. That class and all its member functions are documented in the Arduino Reference:
https://www.arduino.cc/reference/tr/language/variables/data-types/stringobject/
The other way a list of characters can be represented is a char array, confusingly also called a string or cstring. The functions to search and copy the contents of a char array are documented at
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/
Here is a simple Sketch that copies and prints the value of the Weather field using a String object. Use this same pattern - with different head and terminator values - to copy the string values of the other fields.
Once you have the string values of HDD and CPU, you'll need to call functions to convert those string values into int and float values. See the String member functions toInt() and toFloat() at
https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/variables/data-types/string/functions/toint/
or the char array functions atoi() and atof() at
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/atoi/?kw=atoi
String inputStringPC = "HDD: 55 - CPU: 12.6 - Weather: Cloudy [...] $";
const char headWeather[] = "Weather: "; // the prefix of the weather value
const char dashTerminator[] = " -"; // one possible suffix of a value
const char dollarTerminator[] = " $"; // the other possible suffix of a value
void setup() {
int firstIndex; // index into inputStringPC of the first char of the value
int lastIndex; // index just past the last character of the value
Serial.begin(9600);
// find the Weather field and copy its string value.
// Use similar code to copy the values of the other fields.
// NOTE: This code contains no error checking for unexpected input values.
firstIndex = inputStringPC.indexOf(headWeather);
firstIndex += strlen(headWeather); // firstIndex is now the index of the char just past the head.
lastIndex = inputStringPC.indexOf(dollarTerminator, firstIndex);
String value = inputStringPC.substring(firstIndex, lastIndex);
Serial.print("Weather value = '");
Serial.print(value);
Serial.println("'");
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
}
When run on an Arduio Uno, this Sketch produces:
Weather value = 'Cloudy [...]'
Related
//Defining the class
class Hangman
{
private:
vector<string> dictionary; //stores all the words
vector<string> secretWord; //stores the secret word
vector<string> misses; //keeps record of wrong guesses
vector<string> displayVector; //Stores "_"
string originalWord; //stores a copy of secret word to display at the
end of game.
bool gameOver = false; //Flag to check if the player lost or
still in the game.
int totalAttempts;
public:
void selectRandWord();
};
//This is the function i am having problem in.
void Hangman::selectRandWord()
{
secretWord.clear();
//word is a basic string that stores a random word. lets say "Hello World".
string word;
srand(time(NULL));
int random = (rand() % dictionary.size()) + 1;
//I store a random word from vector to word.
word = dictionary[random];
transform(word.begin(), word.end(), word.begin(), ::tolower);
originalWord = word;
for (int index = 0; index < word.length(); index++)
{
//This line has the error: [Error] invalid user-defined conversion from 'char' to 'std::vectorstd::basic_string<char >::value_type&& {aka std::basic_string&&}' [-fpermissive]
//What I am trying to do is take each character from word(for example: "H") and push it back into the vector string secretWord.
secretWord.push_back(word[index]);
}
}
Your secretWord is now a vector<string> type, so it's a collection of possibly many words, I'm not sure if that's what you really intend to have judging by the name. If it indeed is ok and you want to store every single character from word as a separate string in secretWord, then you need to replace push_back call with emplace_back call as the other method actually does two things at a time: constructs a string from the char you pass to it and appends the string to the end of the container, like this
secretWord.emplace_back(1, word[index]);
Mere push_back fails because it needs to be provided with an object of the type your vector stores, so you could also solve your problem by explicitly constructing a string from your char:
secretWord.push_back(string(1, word[index]));
I suggest you give a read to these: emplace back reference and push back reference if you're interested in copy/move details.
I am looking for a way to get a String between 2 Strings using Arduino. This is the source String:
Hello, my name is John Doe# and my favourite number is 32#.
The output has to be:
String name = "John Doe"; //Between "name is " and "#"
String favouriteNumber = "32"; //Between "number is " and "#"
How can this be achieved with Arduino?
I am not able to find any information online about this. Those examples for C are not working anyway. I understand that using String is not recommended in Arduino, but I have to do it this way to make things simpler.
By the way, this method of using a '#' to indicate the end of the data is not an ideal way to do it as I would like the input to be more human readable and more natural. Would anyone please suggest another way to do this as well?
Thanks in advance!
Function midString find the substring that is between two other strings "start" and "finish". If such a string does not exist, it returns "". A test code is included too.
void setup() {
test();
}
void loop() {
delay(100);
}
String midString(String str, String start, String finish){
int locStart = str.indexOf(start);
if (locStart==-1) return "";
locStart += start.length();
int locFinish = str.indexOf(finish, locStart);
if (locFinish==-1) return "";
return str.substring(locStart, locFinish);
}
void test(){
Serial.begin(115200);
String str = "Get a substring of a String. The starting index is inclusive (the corresponding character is included in the substring), but the optional ending index is exclusive";
Serial.print(">");
Serial.print( midString( str, "substring", "String" ) );
Serial.println("<");
Serial.print(">");
Serial.print( midString( str, "substring", "." ) );
Serial.println("<");
Serial.print(">");
Serial.print( midString( str, "corresponding", "inclusive" ) );
Serial.println("<");
Serial.print(">");
Serial.print( midString( str, "object", "inclusive" ) );
Serial.println("<");
}
just searched for this and saw no answer so i cooked one up.
i prefer working with String as well because of code readability and simplicity.
for me its more important than squeezing every last drop of juice out of my arduino.
String name = GetStringBetweenStrings("Hello, my name is John Doe# and my favourite number is 32#." ,"name is ","#");
String GetStringBetweenStrings(String input, String firstdel, String enddel){
int posfrom = input.indexOf(firstdel) + firstdel.length();
int posto = input.indexOf(enddel);
return input.substring(posfrom, posto);
}
watch out for the first case its fine, but for the second one you would have to change the second filter sting to "#." so it doesn't use the first occurrence of the #
I have some code that I have no clue why it isn't working.
The code takes a serial input in the form of "xxx,yyy,zzz", where digits can range from 1 to 3 in each number. Because of an odd quirk in an app, it needs to be read as a char, then converted to a string to be handled. The intention is to split into 3 ints, red green and blue, from "RRR,GGG,BBB".
Now this works fine when I manually define String str (see commented code), but when I go and enter it from the serial console, it doesn't want to work. It seems to be coming from the indexOf(',') part, as while using Serial.print(c1);, I found that when I manually entered a string, it returned an index of the comma, but when I used the serial console, it returned -1 (not found).
And yes, the entered string into the console is in the correct format of "RRR,GGG,BBB", I've confirmed that by printing both phone and str independently.
while (Serial.available() > 0) {
char phone = Serial.read();
String str = String(phone);
//String str = "87,189,183";
int ln = str.length()-1;
int c1 = str.indexOf(','); //first place to cut string
int c2 = str.indexOf(',',c1+1); //second place
red = str.substring(0,c1).toInt();
green = str.substring(c1,c2).toInt();
blue = str.substring(c2,ln).toInt();
Serial.print(red);
Edit: With the Arduino String class, creating a string from a char is returning more than just one character, eleven in fact.
This:
char phone = Serial.read();
String str = String(phone);
will never create a string in str that has more than 1 character, since that's what you say you want.
This is the code for the Arduino's String(char) constructor:
String::String(char c)
{
init();
char buf[2];
buf[0] = c;
buf[1] = 0;
*this = buf;
}
So clearly your code will create a 1-character long string.
Also, beware of using indexes computed on the full string, on substrings later.
I'm try to guess that you are using these serial API http://playground.arduino.cc/Interfacing/CPPWindows.
while (Serial.available() > 0) {
char buf[12];
int len = Serial.ReadData(buf,11);
String str = String(buf);
//String str = "87,189,183";
int ln = str.length()-1;
int c1 = str.indexOf(','); //first place to cut string
int c2 = str.indexOf(',',c1+1); //second place
red = str.substring(0,c1).toInt();
green = str.substring(c1,c2).toInt();
blue = str.substring(c2,ln).toInt();
Serial.print(red);
If you are using other API like http://arduino.cc/en/Serial/Read you should follow these API where Serial is a Stream and read() return just the first available char.
Code was fixed by using a different function.
while (Serial.available() > 0) {
char phone = Serial.read();
str += phone;
//String str = "87,189,183";
int ln = str.length()-1;
int c1 = str.indexOf(','); //first place to cut string
int c2 = str.indexOf(',',c1+1); //second place
red = str.substring(0,c1).toInt();
green = str.substring(c1,c2).toInt();
blue = str.substring(c2,ln).toInt();
Serial.print(red);
I'm not sure why this works, and why before I was getting a string with more than one character. But it works!
I've been working through this exercise, and my output is not what I expect.
(Check substrings) You can check whether a string is a substring of another string
by using the indexOf method in the String class. Write your own method for
this function. Write a program that prompts the user to enter two strings, and
checks whether the first string is a substring of the second.
** My code compromises with the problem's specifications in two ways: it can only display matching substrings to 3 letters, and it cannot work on string literals with less than 4 letters. I mistakenly began writing the program without using the suggested method, indexOf. My program's objective (although it shouldn't entirely deviate from the assignment's objective) is to design a program that determines whether two strings share at least three consecutive letters.
The program's primary error is that it generates numbers instead of char characters. I've run through several, unsuccessful ideas to discover what the logical error is. I first tried to idenfity whether the char characters (which, from my understanding, are underwritten in unicode) were converted to integers, considering that the outputted numbers are also three letters long. Without consulting a reference, I know this isn't true. A comparison between java and javac outputted permutation of 312, and a comparison between abab and ababbab ouputted combinations of 219. j should be > b. My next thought was that the ouputs were indexes of the arrays I used. Once again, this isn't true. A comparison between java and javac would ouput 0, if my reasoning were true.
public class Substring {
public static char [] array;
public static char [] array2;
public static void main (String[]args){
java.util.Scanner input = new java.util.Scanner (System.in);
System.out.println("Enter your two strings here, the longer one preceding the shorter one");
String container1 = input.next();
String container2 = input.next();
char [] placeholder = container1.toCharArray();
char [] placeholder2 = container2.toCharArray();
array = placeholder;
array2 = placeholder2;
for (int i = 0; i < placeholder2.length; i++){
for (int j = 0; j < placeholder.length; j ++){
if (array[j] == array2[i]) matcher(j,i);
}
}
}
public static void matcher(int higher, int lower){
if ((higher < array.length - 2) && (lower < array2.length - 2))
if (( array[higher+1] == array2[lower+1]) && (array[higher+2] == array2[lower+2]))
System.out.println(array[higher] + array[higher+1] + array[higher+2] );
}
}
The + operator promotes shorts, chars, and bytes operands to ints, so
array[higher] + array[higher+1] + array[higher+2]
has type int, not type char which means that
System.out.println(...)
binds to
System.out.println(int)
which displays its argument as a decimal number, instead of binding to
System.out.println(char)
which outputs the given character using the PrintStream's encoding.
I want to convert a String to an int, and all I could find is that you have to convert the String to a char array and then cast this array to an int, but my code produces strange values and I can't figure out what the problem is.
void ledDimm(String command)
{
// Get the Value xx from string LEDDimm=xx
String substring = command.substring(8, command.length());
Serial.println("SubString:");
Serial.println(substring);
Serial.println("SubString Length:");
Serial.println(substring.length());
// Create a Char Array to Store the Substring for conversion
char valueArray[substring.length() + 1];
Serial.println("sizeof ValueArray");
Serial.println(sizeof(valueArray));
// Copy the substring into the array
substring.toCharArray(valueArray, sizeof(valueArray));
Serial.println("valueArray:");
Serial.println(valueArray);
// Convert char array to an int value
int value = int(valueArray);
Serial.println("Integer Value:");
Serial.println(value);
// Write the Value to the LEDPin
analogWrite(LEDPin, value);
}
And the serial output looks like this:
Received packet of size 11
From 192.168.1.4, port 58615
Contents:
LEDDimm=100
SubString:
100
SubString Length:
3
sizeof ValueArray
4
valueArray:
100
Integer Value:
2225
I expected to get an int with the value of 100 but the actual int is 2225?! What have I done wrong here?
There is even an (undocumented) toInt() method in the String class:
int myInt = myString.toInt();
You need to use the function int value = atoi(valueArray); where valueArray is a null terminated string.
The toInt () method is very useful in this aspect, but I found that it is able to convert only strings of length five or less, especially a value less than 65535 as its the maximum value int can take. Over this value, it just gives random numbers (overflowing values). Please be aware of this when you use this method as it killed a lot of my useful time to figure this out. Hope it helps.