VISA Read Losing Characters off the end of the output string

Hi,
So I am writing a VI to take an output string of data from an ardunio Uno and parsing it. I am using the Read Visa vi to grab the string from output of the device. In the end I will be connecting a device that actually gives value in this type of string format : (#80212164,2289,2292,2296,2300,2328,2289,2297,2290,2300,2308,2292,2295,2298,2289,22,24,0*).
So after a large number of loops, the program starts to drop the last few characters of the string that it outputs. So the string output from Visa Read will read something like (#80212164,2289,2292,2296,2300,2328,2289,2297,2290,2300,2308,2292,2295,2298,2289,22,24,). The only way to fix this problem after it has occured is to completely close labview (all the way). Once I open it again and start running the program, all is fine in the world.
Anyone ever have this issue? I have been trying to debug this in different ways and the only weird symptom that I have other than the Visa Read function losing a few characters of the string is the fact that looking at the Bytes at Port after I Visa Read, is that it starts showing five bytes instead of zero.
attached is my most recent attempt at solving this issue.
Note: The Ardunio outputs a string of this format every 2 seconds with the values being incrimental over a specified range.(#80212164,2289,2292,2296,2300,2328,2289,2297,2290,2300,2308,2292,2295,2298,2289,22,24,0*)
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So i did a long data collect and It looks like ever 43minutes and 24 seconds the system goes from cutting off the last 5 characters to not cutting off the last 4 characters.
As I cant see how Labview would be causing that, I am going to try and dig into the Ardunio and solve that issue... hopefully when thats done I can simplfy my code like you guys pointed out.
Thanks!
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