Arduino: Serial.print VS Serial.Write

In many tutorials you can see this method to send a byte tipe variable:

  buff[0]=0x80; //start byte
  buff[1]=0x01; //device id
  buff[2]=0x04; //command number

  for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
  {
    Serial.print(buff[i],BYTE);
  }

If your are using the arduino IDE 1.0 or above that code will return error, because BYTE is no longer supported, instead, the solution is using "write"

Serial.print(buff[i],BYTE);   Is trying to send the array "buff" by serial in a byte mode.

The new model accepted by Arduino IDE is using Serial.write(buff[i])

Serial.write(buff[i]);  Already send in byte mode the variable "buff" so you don't have to specify BYTE anymore.


Reference: http://arduino.cc/es/Serial/Write    //    http://arduino.cc/es/Serial/Print