Serial, read until char == X

[MartinMcD]

Hi,

I'm using the serial.vi to read from the serial port. I'd like to change my program so that I close the port once a particular character has been received, but I'm unsure how to do this. Please can anybody help?

More precisely, I'm sending out a hex string to a device, say 0C,01,02,03.... I then read in 0C,01,02p. 'p' means something has failed so I want to timeout on this character.

Thanks,

Martin

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you set VISA Configure Serial Port to enable termination character and set the termination character to 70 (p in hex), the VISA read will stop as soon as the p is detected.

p.s. This question should have been posted to the serial forum. It has nothing to do with DAQ.