hi im new to pure data and Arduino so please forgive me if i overlooked something obvious here.
im designing drum triggers using piezo mics connected into an Arduino uno the Arduino then outputs the code as PAD#:(then the current output of the piezo as a number) with it writing a new line for every pad. the signal is then sent to pure data using the comport object [comport 3 115200] it is receiving signal but it does not contain the PAD#: it just has numbers and using the serial monitor for Arduino i can see that the numbers are all over 100. were as the numbers being shown in pure data are under 100 is the signal getting compressed somewhere along the way.
I need the signals to output with the PAD#: because i have a route object after the comport to sort the individual drums to there specific sound.
any help at all would be greatly appreciated

Ardiuno code

const int padPins[6] = {A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5};
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
void loop() {
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
int val = analogRead(padPins[i]);
Serial.print("PAD");
Serial.print(i + 1);
Serial.print(": ");
Serial.println(val);
delay(2);
}
delay(5);
}

pure data code

@Blaine24 Look into @alexandros's library for Arduino-Pd com examples (which I think is https://github.com/alexdrymonitis/Arduino_Pd but I'm hoping @alexandros will correct me if I'm wrong), or you could try my way https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13086/arduino-to-pd-vanilla/8. In that example I send "list <float> <float>;" but in your case you want to send "list PAD# <float>;" Observe the space separators--they're significant!

That first select is looking for the end-of-line (EOL) character (the thing appended by Serial.println()), otherwise it's queueing up the characters in the order that the Arduino sends them. When EOL is seen, it parses the list of characters into a Pd list, e.g. "PAD4 42", which you can then route as you did in your example code, although I don't understand what you're doing with the output of [route]. In my way, each of the [route] outputs (except the last one) should just pass the value for each pad.

Edit: I ran a test and it looks like you don't need the list prefix.