Printing elements of char array from PROGMEM

Question

Given:

const char* PROGMEM names[] = {"Foo","Bar"};
Serial.print(names[0]);

I get garbage output. Is there some function that will print the string from PROGMEM? E.G.:

Serial.print(<function name>(names[0]);

• Gerben: That's not how you use PROGMEM. You need to use the functions pgm_read_***_near
• Juraj: your strings are not in progmem. only the array of pointers to strings is there arduino.cc/reference/en/language/variables/utilities/progmem

Answer 1

Among many others, check out pgmspace.h utilities at AVR-libc

Answer 2

const char PROGMEM b0 = pgm_read_dword(&(names[0]));
Serial.print(b0);

• Juraj: PROGMEM does nothing here