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Reads a character from the receive pin of the software serial port. This function waits for a character to arrive, reads it, and returns the character read. Data that arrives at other times is lost.
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the character read
SoftwareSerial serial(6, 7); void setup() { serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { char c = serial.read(); }
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