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## SoftwareSerial: read

#### Description

Return a character that was received on the RX pin of the software serial port. Note that only one SoftwareSerial instance can receive incoming data at a time (select which one with the listen() function).

#### Parameters

none

#### Returns

the character read, or -1 if none is available

#### Example

SoftwareSerial mySerial(10,11);
void setup()
{
mySerial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
char c = mySerial.read();
}
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#### See also

- SoftwareSerial()
- begin()
- print()
- println()

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