Since it's using readInt, I'm assuming the int gets passed back in plain text with a newline to end it.

No. ReadInt() reads binary data, not ASCIIfied. See ReadInt(). The (roughly) equivalent code in Perl would be: 


if( $more ) {
    syswrite( OUT, 1, chr( 64 ) );
    $more = 0;
}
sysread( IN, 4, my $buf );
my $size = unpack( 'N', $buf ); ## Or 'V' see perlfunc:pack
my $imgData;
sysread( IN, $size, $imgData );

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That's only vaguely equivalent. Your snippet does not show what in, out or more are, so you'll need to work that out for yourself. It looks vaguely as if they are separate input and output handles to a socket stream or pipe, but that's guessing.

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In reply to Re: Reading Binary Data via socket ( Converting program from java to perl ) by BrowserUk
in thread Reading Binary Data via socket ( Converting program from java to perl ) by petethered

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