Empty serial port buffer?

Question

Is it possible to empty the buffer of the serial input port without reading from it?

Answer 1

izze wrote in news:5065000000080000002B8B0000-
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> Is it possible to empty the buffer of the serial input port without
> reading from it?
You have several options.
Old standard serial VI's
Use "Bytes at Serial Port" to get number of byte present and wire it to
"Serial Port Read" and don't use the data from the VI.
VISA flush buffer
The function "VISA Flush I/O Buffer".
This did not work for me, it took to long time.
VISA eqvivalent of number of bytes at serial port.
There is a VISA property to read number of bytes on the receive buffer of
the serial port. Use this to get number of bytes and wire this number to
the VISAread function.
The pro
blem is that this only works for serial port.
Use VISA read
-1- Get VISA timeout value (VISA property node)
-2- Set VISA timout to 0 (VISA property node)
-3- make a while loop with
VISA read function with e.g 1000 bytes to read.
End the while loop when number of bytes read is 0
-4- Set VISA timeout back to the value set in step 1
Rolf