Prints data to the serial port as human-readable ASCII text. This command can take many forms. Numbers are printed using an ASCII character for each digit. Floats are similarly printed as ASCII digits, defaulting to two decimal places. Bytes are sent as a single character. Characters and strings are sent as is. For example:

• Serial.print(78) gives “78”
• Serial.print(1.23456) gives “1.23”
• Serial.print('N') gives “N”
• Serial.print(“Hello world.”) gives “Hello world.”

An optional second parameter specifies the base (format) to use; permitted values are BIN (binary, or base 2), OCT (octal, or base 8), DEC (decimal, or base 10), HEX (hexadecimal, or base 16). For floating point numbers, this parameter specifies the number of decimal places to use. For example:

• Serial.print(78, BIN) gives “1001110”
• Serial.print(78, OCT) gives “116”
• Serial.print(78, DEC) gives “78”
• Serial.print(78, HEX) gives “4E”
• Serial.println(1.23456, 0) gives “1”
• Serial.println(1.23456, 2) gives “1.23”
• Serial.println(1.23456, 4) gives “1.2346”

You can pass flash-memory based strings to Serial.print() by wrapping them with F(). For example :

• Serial.print(F(“Hello World”))

To send a single byte, use Serial.write().

Serial.print(val) Serial.print(val, format)

val: the value to print - any data type format: specifies the number base (for integral data types) or number of decimal places (for floating point types)

byte print() will return the number of bytes written, though reading that number is optional

/*
Uses a FOR loop for data and prints a number in various formats.
*/
int x = 0;    // variable
 
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);      // open the serial port at 9600 bps:    
}
 
void loop() {  
  // print labels 
  Serial.print("NO FORMAT");       // prints a label
  Serial.print("\t");              // prints a tab
 
  Serial.print("DEC");  
  Serial.print("\t");      
 
  Serial.print("HEX"); 
  Serial.print("\t");   
 
  Serial.print("OCT");
  Serial.print("\t");
 
  Serial.print("BIN");
  Serial.print("\t"); 
 
  for(x=0; x< 64; x++){    // only part of the ASCII chart, change to suit
 
    // print it out in many formats:
    Serial.print(x);       // print as an ASCII-encoded decimal - same as "DEC"
    Serial.print("\t");    // prints a tab
 
    Serial.print(x, DEC);  // print as an ASCII-encoded decimal
    Serial.print("\t");    // prints a tab
 
    Serial.print(x, HEX);  // print as an ASCII-encoded hexadecimal
    Serial.print("\t");    // prints a tab
 
    Serial.print(x, OCT);  // print as an ASCII-encoded octal
    Serial.print("\t");    // prints a tab
 
    Serial.println(x, BIN);  // print as an ASCII-encoded binary
    //                             then adds the carriage return with "println"
    delay(200);            // delay 200 milliseconds
  }
  Serial.println("");      // prints another carriage return
}

As of version 1.0, serial transmission is asynchronous; Serial.print() will return before any characters are transmitted.

• begin()
• end()
• available()
• read()
• peek()
• parseInt()
• flush()
• print()
• println()
• write()
• SerialEvent()
• Memory

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