in reply to Re: Stream delimiting chars
in thread Stream delimiting chars

Yep. Variable length binary data. Looking at pack it seems uuencoding is the easiest. Shame it's not the most efficient.

Thanks.

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(tye)Re: Stream delimiting chars
by tye (Sage) on Sep 13, 2001 at 21:10 UTC

    Just use "\n" as your end-of-record character (so you can use <SOCK>, even though it is often a bad idea) and do s/([\n\\])/\\$1/g before sending and s/\\./"n"eq$1?"\n":$1/ge; after you receive it.

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