Simple, develop a protocol, preferably a simple one ;D

Example, each transmission looks like: 

type:length:message

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so yer server can say action:0008:fly away or better yet, create a hash like 
my %ACTIOn = ( '000' => 'not an action',
               '001' => 'jump',
               '002' => 'swim',....

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that way, you can say "001:0008:fly away" parse your protocol by reading in the first 3 + 1 + 4 characters, doing something like my($action,$length)=split/:/ and the reading $length bytes... I hope you get the picture
 

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In reply to (podmaster) Re: Reading and writing sockets by PodMaster
in thread Reading and writing sockets by Marcello

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