Hi we were asked to program something which when i enter something in the serial monitor it prints Hello world but the catch is it only prints hello world under the conditions that your input in the serial monitor is a 3 bit input and after that i need to have a code which then stops it from printing over and over again. my only problem is that i dont really know how to count the number of bits of an input.

Hi we were asked to program something which when i enter something in the serial monitor it prints Hello world but the catch is it only prints hello world under the conditions that your input in the serial monitor is a 3 bit input and after that i need to have a code which then stops it from printing over and over again. my only problem is that i don't really know how to count the number of bits of an input and also to stop it from printing continuously.

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop() {
  String readSerial;
    String input;
    while(Serial.available() > 0){// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
    delay(2);
  input.concat(String((char)Serial.read()));
  return input;
  }
  Serial.println("HELLO WORLD");
}