Does each line contain $GPGLL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Parker
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2001 2:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: This is strange...can anybody help?
>
>
> I'm trying to read GPS data from the serial port. The code below, which
> is simply reading and dumping the NMEA strings into a scrolling text box
> works great. It'll read & read & read forever and the output is exactly
> what it should be. The curious part is when the 2 commented lines are
> uncommented, the output goes right to hell. After the addition of the if
> statement, tempgps gets truncated at 8 characters. That's all it ever
> contains. They're the right 8 characters, but it should be a much longer
> string.
>
> I don't understand how it works great one way, but gets hosed with the
> addition of a decision statement.
>
> Thanks for any assistance in understanding this strange phenomena.
>
> Jim Parker
>
> ================================
> local tempgps
>
> on mouseUp
> put empty into field "info"
> set the serialControlString to "baud=9600 parity=n data=8 stop=1"
> open file "COM2:"
> repeat forever
> read from file "COM2:" until return
> put it into tempgps
> #if tempgps contains "$GPGLL" then
> put tempgps after field "info"
> #end if
> end repeat
> close file "COM2:"
> end mouseUp
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