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  • M mrjj
    16 Dec 2019, 08:12

    Hi
    You should add check to the

    serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);

    to see if it fails.

    It might not open at all and hence nothing will be seen on the board.

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    sankarapandiyan
    wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 10:24 last edited by
    #8

    @mrjj @JonB

    alternate text

    Yes both of you are right .. above image shows my output ,
    if i clicked the send button first time ,
    "" is printed like this
    while clicked second time
    line 5 is printed
    while third time same is printed

    i Dont know why its came like this

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    • J JonB
      16 Dec 2019, 09:54

      @sankarapandiyan
      You still have not shown code which checks the result from serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);. Could you please start by doing that at least. This further applies to other code of yours, e.g. serial->write(baToSend);. If you expect a solution to your issues you should start by introducing the necessary error checking code wherever possible.

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      sankarapandiyan
      wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 10:27 last edited by
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      @JonB

      @JonB said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

      You still have not shown code which checks the result from serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);.

      YEs i have shown in above reply

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      • Y Yunus
        16 Dec 2019, 10:00

        @sankarapandiyan He is also sending texts and numbers to Arduino :). He is controlling arduino by sending letters, and numbers. Thats why I thought maybe helpfull for you. You can also send data to arduino only by using C++. But using Qt makes it easy.

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        sankarapandiyan
        wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 10:41 last edited by
        #10

        @Yunus Sure thanks a lot i will refer

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        • S sankarapandiyan
          16 Dec 2019, 10:24

          @mrjj @JonB

          alternate text

          Yes both of you are right .. above image shows my output ,
          if i clicked the send button first time ,
          "" is printed like this
          while clicked second time
          line 5 is printed
          while third time same is printed

          i Dont know why its came like this

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          JonB
          wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 11:24 last edited by
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          @sankarapandiyan
          You cannot expect people to help if you show output which simply does not correspond to anywhere in the code you have shown, can you? For example, you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines....

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          • J JonB
            16 Dec 2019, 11:24

            @sankarapandiyan
            You cannot expect people to help if you show output which simply does not correspond to anywhere in the code you have shown, can you? For example, you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines....

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            sankarapandiyan
            wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 11:47 last edited by
            #12

            @JonB ok fine.. thanks

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            • J JonB
              16 Dec 2019, 11:24

              @sankarapandiyan
              You cannot expect people to help if you show output which simply does not correspond to anywhere in the code you have shown, can you? For example, you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines....

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              ODБOï
              wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 13:07 last edited by ODБOï
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              @JonB said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

              you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines..

              hi, the 2nd line in his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

              @sankarapandiyan you should put it in a if statement to call qDebug only if open() returns true

              if(serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite))
              
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              • O ODБOï
                16 Dec 2019, 13:07

                @JonB said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines..

                hi, the 2nd line in his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                @sankarapandiyan you should put it in a if statement to call qDebug only if open() returns true

                if(serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite))
                
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                wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 13:20 last edited by JonB
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                @LeLev said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                hi, the 2nd line ot his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                You are right. I searched the whole page for serial opened (or even seral opened), I have only just seen it is in a screenshot. However, I still do not see where the baToSend used there is declared or set, I only see it elsewhere (local variable inside on_send_clicked()). Nor do I know what it is the text file read in. So it's still pretty hard to know what is going on....

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                • J JonB
                  16 Dec 2019, 13:20

                  @LeLev said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                  hi, the 2nd line ot his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                  You are right. I searched the whole page for serial opened (or even seral opened), I have only just seen it is in a screenshot. However, I still do not see where the baToSend used there is declared or set, I only see it elsewhere (local variable inside on_send_clicked()). Nor do I know what it is the text file read in. So it's still pretty hard to know what is going on....

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                  sankarapandiyan
                  wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 15:07 last edited by
                  #15

                  @JonB In text file i have 5 lines ,

                  line 1
                  line 2
                  line 3
                  line 4
                  line 5

                  i want to print these five line in arduino serial monitor , While i clicking send button

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                  • J JonB
                    16 Dec 2019, 13:20

                    @LeLev said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                    hi, the 2nd line ot his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                    You are right. I searched the whole page for serial opened (or even seral opened), I have only just seen it is in a screenshot. However, I still do not see where the baToSend used there is declared or set, I only see it elsewhere (local variable inside on_send_clicked()). Nor do I know what it is the text file read in. So it's still pretty hard to know what is going on....

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                    wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 15:54 last edited by sankarapandiyan
                    #16

                    @JonB Tried to Edit my code in correct form

                    #include "mainwindow.h"
                    #include "ui_mainwindow.h"
                    #include <QList>
                    #include <QComboBox>
                    #include <QString>
                    #include <QTextEdit>
                    #include <QTime>
                    #include <QDebug>
                    #include <QtSerialPort/QSerialPortInfo>
                    #include <QtSerialPort>
                    #include <QFile>
                    #include <QList>
                    #include <QSerialPort>
                    
                    MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
                        : QMainWindow(parent)
                        , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
                    {
                    
                          ui->setupUi(this);
                          QString filename1="/home/adx-soft1/Shankar/serial/myfile1.txt";
                          QFile file(filename1);
                          if(!file.exists()){
                              qDebug() << "NO FILE "<<filename1;
                          }else{
                              qDebug() << filename1<<" ...";
                          }
                          QString line1;
                          ui->sender->clear();
                          if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)){ ui->sender->setText(file.readAll()); }
                    
                          QList<QSerialPortInfo> list;
                          list = QSerialPortInfo::availablePorts();
                    
                          for (int i= 0; i < list.length(); i++)
                          {
                            ui->comboBox->addItem(list[i].portName());
                    
                          }
                    }
                    
                    MainWindow::~MainWindow()
                    {
                        serial->close();
                        delete ui;
                    }
                    
                    void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
                    {
                        serial = new QSerialPort(this);
                        serial->setPortName(ui->comboBox->currentText());
                        serial->setBaudRate(QSerialPort::Baud9600);
                        serial->setDataBits(QSerialPort::Data8);
                        serial->setParity(QSerialPort::NoParity);
                        serial->setStopBits(QSerialPort::OneStop);
                        serial->setFlowControl(QSerialPort::NoFlowControl);
                        serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
                        connect(serial, &QSerialPort::readyRead, this, &MainWindow::serialReceived);
                    
                       ui->progressBar->setValue(100);
                    //    ui->receive->clear();
                    }
                    void MainWindow::checkAndSendData()
                    {
                        if(!m_lines.isEmpty()){
                            baToSend = m_lines.takeFirst().toUtf8();
                            serial->write(baToSend);
                            //qDebug() << baToSend << "serial Writed---" ;
                    
                            ui->aknowmnt->setText("Sent Message -->" +  QString(baToSend) + "\n");
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            ui->aknowmnt->setText("Receiving ");
                        }
                    }
                    
                    
                    void MainWindow ::on_send_clicked()
                    {
                          //serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
                          qDebug () << baToSend << "seral opened ----" ;
                    
                          qDebug() << "Serial: " << serial->isOpen();
                          qDebug() << "Error: " << serial->error() << " | " << serial->errorString();
                    
                          line = ui->sender->toPlainText();
                            QString txt1 = ui->receive->toPlainText();
                            /*QString*/ txt3 = ui->aknowmnt->toPlainText();
                    
                            qDebug() << "m_lines: " << m_lines;
                    
                             if(m_lines.isEmpty()){
                                QFile inputFile(QString("/home/adx-soft1/Shankar/serial/myfile1.txt"));
                                inputFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
                    
                                if (!inputFile.isOpen()) {
                                    return;
                                }
                    
                                QTextStream stream(&inputFile);
                    
                                while(!stream.atEnd()) {
                                    QString strline = stream.readLine();
                                    m_lines.append(strline + QString("\r\n"));
                    
                                    qDebug() << "m_lines: " << m_lines;
                                }
                            }
                            checkAndSendData();
                    }
                    
                    
                    void MainWindow::serialReceived()
                    {
                    
                        qDebug() << "serial->readAll().trimmed(): " << serial->readAll().trimmed();
                    
                        QString glen = serial->readAll().trimmed();
                    
                        qDebug() << "glen: " << glen;
                    
                         if (glen.length() > 0) {
                             ui->receive->append(glen);
                            /*QString*/ //line = ui->receive->toPlainText();
                            //ui->receive->setText(ui->receive->toPlainText() + line + "\n");
                            //ui->receive->setText(line + "\r\n" + glen + "\r\n");
                            //line = txt3;
                        }
                        checkAndSendData();
                    }
                    

                    But i did not get the data received in arduino side

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                    • O ODБOï
                      16 Dec 2019, 13:07

                      @JonB said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                      you have a screenshot showing output where the code you have shown simply does not include any such output lines..

                      hi, the 2nd line in his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                      @sankarapandiyan you should put it in a if statement to call qDebug only if open() returns true

                      if(serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite))
                      
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                      wrote on 16 Dec 2019, 15:56 last edited by
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                      @LeLev ok fine i will correct it

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                      • J JonB
                        16 Dec 2019, 13:20

                        @LeLev said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                        hi, the 2nd line ot his on_send_clicked method doas qDebbug() << "serial opened-"

                        You are right. I searched the whole page for serial opened (or even seral opened), I have only just seen it is in a screenshot. However, I still do not see where the baToSend used there is declared or set, I only see it elsewhere (local variable inside on_send_clicked()). Nor do I know what it is the text file read in. So it's still pretty hard to know what is going on....

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                        sankarapandiyan
                        wrote on 17 Dec 2019, 07:39 last edited by
                        #18

                        @JonB @LeLev @mrjj cant open port : QSerialPort::SerialPortError(PermissionError)
                        I get the error like this ..

                        Thanks

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                        • S sankarapandiyan
                          17 Dec 2019, 07:39

                          @JonB @LeLev @mrjj cant open port : QSerialPort::SerialPortError(PermissionError)
                          I get the error like this ..

                          Thanks

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                          wrote on 17 Dec 2019, 07:45 last edited by
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                          @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                          PermissionError

                          Make sure your user has needed access rights for the serial port device file.
                          See for example https://askubuntu.com/questions/58119/changing-permissions-on-serial-port

                          https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                            17 Dec 2019, 07:45

                            @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                            PermissionError

                            Make sure your user has needed access rights for the serial port device file.
                            See for example https://askubuntu.com/questions/58119/changing-permissions-on-serial-port

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                            wrote on 17 Dec 2019, 08:02 last edited by
                            #20

                            @jsulm Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS ..
                            Here if i open the port in Qt means , in Arduino ,i got a error the port is changed or not found

                            while if i open the port in Arduino first means , I got a error message in Qt as (PERMISSION ERROR)

                            I am Stucked here for a day, I am very new to this arduino topic , So give me some idea abouth this .

                            Thanks in advance .

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                            • S sankarapandiyan
                              17 Dec 2019, 08:02

                              @jsulm Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS ..
                              Here if i open the port in Qt means , in Arduino ,i got a error the port is changed or not found

                              while if i open the port in Arduino first means , I got a error message in Qt as (PERMISSION ERROR)

                              I am Stucked here for a day, I am very new to this arduino topic , So give me some idea abouth this .

                              Thanks in advance .

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                              jsulm
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                              wrote on 17 Dec 2019, 09:05 last edited by
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                              @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                              Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS

                              Not sure what you mean? If both devices run same OS then yes.

                              "i got a error the port is changed or not found" - then make sure you're using correct port!

                              "I got a error message in Qt as (PERMISSION ERROR)" - then make sure your user has access right like I suggested above.

                              https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                              • S sankarapandiyan
                                17 Dec 2019, 08:02

                                @jsulm Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS ..
                                Here if i open the port in Qt means , in Arduino ,i got a error the port is changed or not found

                                while if i open the port in Arduino first means , I got a error message in Qt as (PERMISSION ERROR)

                                I am Stucked here for a day, I am very new to this arduino topic , So give me some idea abouth this .

                                Thanks in advance .

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                                JKSH
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                                wrote on 18 Dec 2019, 07:40 last edited by JKSH
                                #22

                                @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                                Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS ..

                                If you have 2 apps on the same computer that want to use the same serial port, then only one of the programs can use the serial port at a time.

                                When App 1 opens a serial port, App 2 cannot use the same serial port. App 2 must wait until App 1 closes the port.

                                Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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                                • S sankarapandiyan
                                  16 Dec 2019, 15:54

                                  @JonB Tried to Edit my code in correct form

                                  #include "mainwindow.h"
                                  #include "ui_mainwindow.h"
                                  #include <QList>
                                  #include <QComboBox>
                                  #include <QString>
                                  #include <QTextEdit>
                                  #include <QTime>
                                  #include <QDebug>
                                  #include <QtSerialPort/QSerialPortInfo>
                                  #include <QtSerialPort>
                                  #include <QFile>
                                  #include <QList>
                                  #include <QSerialPort>
                                  
                                  MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
                                      : QMainWindow(parent)
                                      , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
                                  {
                                  
                                        ui->setupUi(this);
                                        QString filename1="/home/adx-soft1/Shankar/serial/myfile1.txt";
                                        QFile file(filename1);
                                        if(!file.exists()){
                                            qDebug() << "NO FILE "<<filename1;
                                        }else{
                                            qDebug() << filename1<<" ...";
                                        }
                                        QString line1;
                                        ui->sender->clear();
                                        if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)){ ui->sender->setText(file.readAll()); }
                                  
                                        QList<QSerialPortInfo> list;
                                        list = QSerialPortInfo::availablePorts();
                                  
                                        for (int i= 0; i < list.length(); i++)
                                        {
                                          ui->comboBox->addItem(list[i].portName());
                                  
                                        }
                                  }
                                  
                                  MainWindow::~MainWindow()
                                  {
                                      serial->close();
                                      delete ui;
                                  }
                                  
                                  void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
                                  {
                                      serial = new QSerialPort(this);
                                      serial->setPortName(ui->comboBox->currentText());
                                      serial->setBaudRate(QSerialPort::Baud9600);
                                      serial->setDataBits(QSerialPort::Data8);
                                      serial->setParity(QSerialPort::NoParity);
                                      serial->setStopBits(QSerialPort::OneStop);
                                      serial->setFlowControl(QSerialPort::NoFlowControl);
                                      serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
                                      connect(serial, &QSerialPort::readyRead, this, &MainWindow::serialReceived);
                                  
                                     ui->progressBar->setValue(100);
                                  //    ui->receive->clear();
                                  }
                                  void MainWindow::checkAndSendData()
                                  {
                                      if(!m_lines.isEmpty()){
                                          baToSend = m_lines.takeFirst().toUtf8();
                                          serial->write(baToSend);
                                          //qDebug() << baToSend << "serial Writed---" ;
                                  
                                          ui->aknowmnt->setText("Sent Message -->" +  QString(baToSend) + "\n");
                                      }
                                      else
                                      {
                                          ui->aknowmnt->setText("Receiving ");
                                      }
                                  }
                                  
                                  
                                  void MainWindow ::on_send_clicked()
                                  {
                                        //serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
                                        qDebug () << baToSend << "seral opened ----" ;
                                  
                                        qDebug() << "Serial: " << serial->isOpen();
                                        qDebug() << "Error: " << serial->error() << " | " << serial->errorString();
                                  
                                        line = ui->sender->toPlainText();
                                          QString txt1 = ui->receive->toPlainText();
                                          /*QString*/ txt3 = ui->aknowmnt->toPlainText();
                                  
                                          qDebug() << "m_lines: " << m_lines;
                                  
                                           if(m_lines.isEmpty()){
                                              QFile inputFile(QString("/home/adx-soft1/Shankar/serial/myfile1.txt"));
                                              inputFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
                                  
                                              if (!inputFile.isOpen()) {
                                                  return;
                                              }
                                  
                                              QTextStream stream(&inputFile);
                                  
                                              while(!stream.atEnd()) {
                                                  QString strline = stream.readLine();
                                                  m_lines.append(strline + QString("\r\n"));
                                  
                                                  qDebug() << "m_lines: " << m_lines;
                                              }
                                          }
                                          checkAndSendData();
                                  }
                                  
                                  
                                  void MainWindow::serialReceived()
                                  {
                                  
                                      qDebug() << "serial->readAll().trimmed(): " << serial->readAll().trimmed();
                                  
                                      QString glen = serial->readAll().trimmed();
                                  
                                      qDebug() << "glen: " << glen;
                                  
                                       if (glen.length() > 0) {
                                           ui->receive->append(glen);
                                          /*QString*/ //line = ui->receive->toPlainText();
                                          //ui->receive->setText(ui->receive->toPlainText() + line + "\n");
                                          //ui->receive->setText(line + "\r\n" + glen + "\r\n");
                                          //line = txt3;
                                      }
                                      checkAndSendData();
                                  }
                                  

                                  But i did not get the data received in arduino side

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                                    18 Dec 2019, 07:40

                                    @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                                    Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS ..

                                    If you have 2 apps on the same computer that want to use the same serial port, then only one of the programs can use the serial port at a time.

                                    When App 1 opens a serial port, App 2 cannot use the same serial port. App 2 must wait until App 1 closes the port.

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                                    wrote on 18 Dec 2019, 12:02 last edited by
                                    #24

                                    @JKSH Yes You are right .. thanks for your reply

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                                      17 Dec 2019, 09:05

                                      @sankarapandiyan said in How to send the Data from Qt App to Arduino by serial communication:

                                      Is it possible to open the port in both Qt app and Arduino in a same OS

                                      Not sure what you mean? If both devices run same OS then yes.

                                      "i got a error the port is changed or not found" - then make sure you're using correct port!

                                      "I got a error message in Qt as (PERMISSION ERROR)" - then make sure your user has access right like I suggested above.

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                                      wrote on 18 Dec 2019, 12:03 last edited by
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                                      @jsulm sure

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