I have an Arduino Uno acting as a master with 3 Arduino Nano's acting as a slaves.

Looking at this example: http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10892, it tells me how to send a string from the master to the slave, but I didn't see any examples sending a string from the slave to the master device. I was able to successfully send and receive digits to/from the master and slave, but I couldn't figure out how to send strings from the slave to the master based on the example.

My understanding is that SPI communications can only send information byte by byte, so am I supposed to convert my string into a byte format before putting that into the SPDR variable so that it can be sent back to the master?

In any case, would I be able to get some pointers on how to send strings from the slave to the master?

Thanks in advance.