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Re: Parsing data from a data feed

by Apterigo (Scribe)
on Jul 19, 2001 at 00:33 UTC ( [id://97879]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Parsing data from a data feed

Well, this is what i had to change it to, now it works perfect: 
do {
  $socket->recv($response, 1);
  $data = $data . response;
} until ($response eq "\0x00");

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As far as the rest is concerned, I cannot read using getline I think, and I cannot read til EOF because there is no EOF, as I said the datafeed goes on forever. You may be right though, I'll check into that.
Thanks Tons!
Apterigo

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Re: Re: Parsing data from a data feed
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 19, 2001 at 01:18 UTC
    I don't know why getline wouldn't return a record at a time if you set $/ to "\x00". The advantage of doing it this way is that you should burn less CPU time, because the low-level (C) code is actually handling the incoming characters and you get full records. Generally, the less times you can manage to go through a loop, the better. So your get-a-record routine would be just:

    my $response;
{
  local $/ = chr(0);  # or "\x00"
  $response = $socket->getline
}

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