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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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