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Hello, I'm trying to send a serial string that would look like this:

unfortunately, the zero gets lost when I send the message. I tried using sprintf with symout but the serial object will not take it.

Hello, I'm trying to send a serial string that would look like this:
01 81 81 81

sending-a-serial-string-that-starts-with-zero

Max will interpret this as a numeric value and therefore remove leading zeros. Try to wrap your sprintf expression with \" (double quotes need to be ecascaped). But as soon as you will remove the double quotes i.e. with fromsymbol the leading zeros will be removed again.

Thanx for your reply Jan. Unfortunately, this behaves the same as using symout in sprintf. The Serial object will not accept symbols as input.

The serial object doesn't need the leading zero.

Turns out the command was in Hex so I had to translate it into decimal values.

https://cycling74.com/forums/how-to-pass-the-string-02-in-max-5/

Finaly figured it out.
Turns out the command was in Hex so I had to translate it into decimal values.
See here for details:
https://cycling74.com/forums/how-to-pass-the-string-02-in-max-5/


Sending a serial string that starts with zero