Capturing stream data from a pin?

[bwgames]

Hiya,

I'm looking to capture 12 incoming bits from an input pin, then output on the rs232.
i.e. :

capture 1st bit to an array(?)
function loops
capture second..
loops
capture 3rd etc..
when number of captures = 12, then output array to rs232 serially.

I looked at gets etc, but that only seems to work for an rs232 input, when I want to do it differently.

Any pointers?
Thanks

[Mark]

How is the bit duration controlled? Do you supply a clock signal? Is a clock signal supplied to you? Or do you receive a start transition and everything else is based on a time period? If so, what's the time period?

[bwgames]

I supply a clock signal, its part of a timing circuit.
Not on the coding computer at the moment so I can't paste, but its basically in the form of:

set t=1
while(true) //so it loops the following code permenantely
set clock pin high
read input bit t of 12
t=++t
if(t==12({t=1}
set clock pin low
delay_cycles(10)

what i want to put in there is if(t==12){output all the bits via rs232)};, but not sure what code to use to store the bits...

thanks

[Mark]

Here is one example on how to read in the data. It assumes the data is send msb first. It will return a 16 bit number that you can then send via RS232.