Hi folks, I am trying to implement a function which reads from Serial Port ( Linux) and retuns char*. The function works fine but how would I store return value from function. example of function is char *ReadToSerialPort() { char *bufptr; char buffer[256]; // Input buffer/ / //char *bufptr; // Current char in buffer // int nbytes; // Number of bytes read // bufptr = buffer; while ((nbytes = read(fd, bufptr, buffer+sizeof(buffer)-bufptr -1 )) > 0) { bufptr += nbytes; // if (bufptr[-1] == '\n' || bufptr[-1] == '\r') /*if ( bufptr[sizeof(buffer) -1] == '*' && bufptr[0] == '$' ) { break; }*/ } // while ends if ( nbytes ) return bufptr; else return 0; *bufptr = '\0'; } // end ReadAdrPort //In main int main( int argc , char *argv[]) { char *letter; if(strcpy(letter, ReadToSerialPort()) >0 ) { printf("Response is %s\n",letter); } }