> I have the PCM version of the CCS compiler and i am having problems reading a
>  string through
> the serial port and then converting this to a value eg. send "255" and convert
>  to 255
> anybody able to give an example, also anybody got sample programs for the CCS
>  compiler
> apart from the ones it came with !
>
I've always passed the bytes on to a host computer with functions to
deal with ascii conversion. But there I used a function called
asc() that would do the conversion for me. Otherwise you might be
stuck specifying a const array of characters and doing a table
lookup for each character, using the index for your number sorry..