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Return a decimal number from the head of the Rx buffer for the serial port at address pp<\/code>. Skip any leading spaces. Process leading + or – sign if present. Terminate on anything thereafter that’s not a decimal digit or decimal point, or after processing fw<\/code> characters in total (including spaces, sign and decimal point). Consume the characters used but not the terminating character. Result in W, NaN if nothing there. R register signals outcome. 0 = OK, 1 = no valid decimal number present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. This differs from the same instruction without the leading ‘a’ in that it explicitly nominates a serial port address (pp) rather than the default serial port.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. This instruction will only process characters that have already been received. You should therefore ensure that either a known terminating character, or the required number of characters, have been received before attempting to execute this instruction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The character count fw<\/code> includes leading spaces, signs and decimal point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The only characters removed from the buffer are leading spaces plus the characters that form the number. Hence, if a terminating character is encountered before fw<\/code> characters are used, less than fw<\/code> characters will be removed from the buffer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Conversion will end on the first unexpected character, including a trailing space, a second sign character or a second decimal point. This overrides the field width.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. The valid range for fw<\/code> is 1 to 255. fw<\/code> = 255 disables character counting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Anything more than 7 digits of input is meaningless, as the floating point number representation is only accurate to 6 or 7 decimal places. Excess digits will be nevertheless be consumed, up to the limits of fw<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Can only exist on boards that have an uncommitted serial port other than the programming port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See also COMRx_GetHex<\/a>, COMRx_BufLen<\/a>, COMRx_FindXInBuf<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Examples<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

    The following shows the result of the instruction ComRx_fGetNum 8<\/code> for various receive buffer contents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Receive buffer contents before (Shown as ASCII (printable) characters.<\/td>Result returned in W<\/td>Receive buffer contents after conversion<\/td>Comment<\/td><\/tr>
    123.456xxxxxxxx<\/code><\/td>23.456<\/td>xxxxxxxx<\/code><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
    123.456xxxx<\/code><\/td>123<\/td>456xxxx<\/code><\/td>Leading spaces are counted in the field width. The decimal point “makes it”,<\/td><\/tr>
    -123.456xxxxxxx<\/code><\/td>-123.456<\/td>xxxxxxx<\/code><\/td>All good, got it all<\/td><\/tr>
    -123.456xxxxxx<\/code><\/td>-123.45<\/td> <\/td>The last digit is excluded, because the field width of 8 terminates conversion. Furthermore, a subsequent conversion (with I<\/code> as-is) would return 6.<\/td><\/tr>
    -12.3.456xxxxx<\/code><\/td>-12.3<\/td>.456xxxxx<\/code><\/td>The second decimal point terminates conversion. If the same instruction were executed again (with I<\/code> as-is), it would return 0.456<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Dialect exclusions: Not available in dialects before 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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