Hallo

I felt sure that I had asked this question before, but having reviewed ALL my previous posts - apparently not:

I am passing sensor data into PD (PurrData) via the [comport] external. If the numbers are sent as 'raw' bytes (Serial.write), I can parse them easily enough. I would like to try using Serial.print, which will allow me to send numbers >255. Can some kind soul remind me how to convert ascii back into the sensor integers. In Max, I would do this: [itoa] -> [fromsymbol], But it seems a little more involved in PD. I've been trying [spell], [makefile] etc without success.
Thanks

@brendan You can use [list tosymbol] to convert ASCII to a symbol and then [f] to convert to float, as long as the ASCII list would convert to a number.

I've made an abstraction for that exact reason. It's called [serial_print] and you can use it with Arduino's Serial.print() and Serial.println() functions. You can get it here.
Make sure to read the help patch and Arduino sketch that comes with it, to see exactly how it works.

Thank you both for the suggestions and links. I'll try each and report back soon.

Brendan