Ser.Getdata Method

Function:	For the selected serial port (selection is made through ser.num) returns the string that contains the data extracted from the RX buffer.
Syntax:	ser.getdata(maxinplen as word) as string
Returns:	String containing data extracted from the RX buffer
See Also:	Three Modes of the Serial Port, Receiving data ser.peekdata

Part	Description
maxinplen	Maximum amount of data to return (word).

Details

Extracted data is permanently deleted from the buffer. Length of extracted data is limited by one of the three factors (whichever is smaller): amount of committed data in the RX buffer itself, capacity of the "receiving" string variable, and the limit set by the maxinplen argument.

In the UART mode (ser.mode= 0- PL_SER_MODE_UART) the data is extracted "as is". For Wiegand and clock/data mode (ser.mode= 1- PL_SER_MODE_WIEGAND and ser.mode= 2- PL_SER_MODE_CLOCKDATA) each character of extracted data represents one data bit and only two characters are possible: '0' or '1'.