flush()

Description

Waits for the transmission of outgoing serial data to complete. (Prior to Arduino 1.0, this instead removed any buffered incoming serial data.)

flush() inherits from the Stream utility class.

Syntax

Serial.flush()

Arduino Mega only:
Serial1.flush()
Serial2.flush()
Serial3.flush()

Parameters

none

Returns

nothing

See also

• begin()
• end()
• available()
• read()
• peek()
• flush()
• print()
• println()
• write()
• SerialEvent()
  
• Stream.flush()

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