Ok, I have a chunk of javacode that I am trying to convert to perl and it's out of my realm of expertise. Javacode: 
                if(more)
                {
                    byte b = 64;
                    out.write(b);
                    out.flush();
                    more = false;
                }
                int size = in.readInt();
                imgData = new byte[size];
                for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
                    imgData[i] = in.readByte();

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I can follow what the Javacode is doing.

It sends a byte to the server, then reads in an int ( Since it's using readInt, im assuming the int gets passed back in plain text with a newline to end it ) then creates an array of bytes based on the size that was passed to it and then reads the bytes till the size is reached.

My problem: I don't know how to do this in perl. All of my experience with sockets is in plaintext ( mostly for webcommunication ) . Any chance of someone providing me a idea on how to do this?

PeteTheRed

In reply to Reading Binary Data via socket ( Converting program from java to perl ) by petethered

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