# OpenUART read

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**Category:** Open AT\
**Created:** [February 17, 2012, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/openuart-read/5470 "2012-02-17T08:48:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/openuart-read/5470/4 "2012-02-24T20:13:35Z")

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> [@Leonalem](#):
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> what sign the package is precisely accepted!

Use a State Machine: [Good paper on Event-Driven Programming - #6 by awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/good-paper-on-event-driven-programming/3848/6)

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> In particular, note that this illustrates how to accept data in arbitrary “chunks” that do not necessarily correspond to complete “messages”

You certainly do not want a while(1) loop ❗😮

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