Input of a Data Stream

basicdez has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay. Please offer first forgiveness for my lack of knowledge, but here goes with my question. I need to read in a data stream that will be coming through a Port from another software package. I know the ending of the data stream is when "EOS" "EOS" is found. This is what I have so far, but I am sure that I am barely close. Please help me if you can... thanks dez L

my $clientfd = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host,
                                     PeerPort => $port,
                                     Proto    => "tcp",
                                     Type     => SOCK_STREAM);
if ($@)
  {
    my $conn_err = "Could not connect to $host:$port:$@";
  }
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Okay, I think that is what I have to do open my port, but now what do I need to do to read in the incoming data stream coming from $host:$port. Please help if you can.

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Re: Input of a Data Stream by gbarr (Monk) on Oct 05, 2001 at 21:24 UTC
In order to give a full response we would need to know more. Is the data you are reading line based ? Does the app need to read from more than one connection at a time ? Depending on what your answers are will change how many short-cuts you can take. If this is just a simple app that reads a line based datastream from just the one socket then you can do `while(<$clientfd>) { last if /^EOS$/; # process line } close($clientfd);` [download] But if you want to read from more than one socket at a time then you will need to use sysread and select	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Input of a Data Stream by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 05, 2001 at 21:12 UTC
You can read from your socket as you would a normal filehandle. You could use read to read from it as well. Filehandle-type reads are easier, but if you're looking for a specific end of message sequence, you're better off going with read. See perlipc for more details.	[reply]