How to receive data from serial port?

Hi everyone! I'm a new member here.

First of all I would like to address my problem on C++ programming in serial communication. My program is expected to receive float number from the serial port COM7 and show it on exe window. But while I'm trying to compile it, there are quite a lot of errors.

Below is the code that I've written:

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include "serial.h"

void main[] {
CSerial serial;

if (serial.Open(2, 9600))
{
char* lpBuffer = new char[500];
float NumberRead = serial.ReadData(lpBuffer, 500);
cout<<"Temperature = "<<NumberRead<<endl;
delete []lpBuffer;
}

else
AfxMessageBox("Failed to open port!");
}

Is this program written in correct way to receive data from serial port? Any help and advice is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Most likely not.

I have never used the library, but by convention, the number returned by serial.ReadData is probably the number of bytes read.

The ACTUAL data is probably in lpBuffer ([0] to [NumberRead - 1]).

NumberRead should probably be a size_t, or int (you can't read half a byte).