Save Data from Arduino to .txt with Processing

i think it is more as question regarding the program flow:

-a- if now new line from arduino is available,
your code try to use the empty / the last vals content

-b- if you save the array ( generated from ONE line ) to the file
( remark: mode overwriting / processing can not append )
the file will contain max only the split-ed last line
writing its array to lines in the file.

-c- also it can work to use the

if (myPort.available()

inside draw, please check on
https://processing.org/reference/libraries/serial/serialEvent_.html


point seems that you try to use data without knowing

  • if there are any and
  • what is the content

so start again, test line by line, and print the content of the data to console,
use a structure with

boolean diagp = true;
//..
if ( diagp ) println(vals);

so you later can disable that diagnostic printing