I've been slamming my head against the same brick wall all afternoon, so I thought I'd ask for help.

I am attempting to write a TCP server in Perl. This server will listen on a port and accept incoming communications. The first line of the incoming request is read, some decisions are made, and then the rest of the request is read in. I need to get the entire rest of the request into one scalar character string, so I was doing this:
$clientRequest = "";

while (<CLIENT>) {
$clientRequest .= $_;
}

Obviously there is also an ending condition (it checks $_ against a preset "end of file" value).

This, when run, produced some extremely mangled strings. When I tried to print out $clientRequest doing something like this:

print "clientRequest is $clientRequest\n";

I would end up with something like
clientTextest is lastlinesentbyclient

What am I missing? Please tell me it's something obvious and make me feel stupid - at this point, that's the best thing I could hope for. Thanks, Jen

In reply to Help with string concat and sockets by jen

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