However, since TCP sockets that really receive their data in packets look like any pipe, it could be cool to do it so that I could define a regexp, and after a while of munching I would have a match and socket in such state that reading from it would give me the area of $' ($' itself would obviously be undefined...). I even imagine this could be technically possible, at least if regexp is in maximal non-greedy mode (so it wouldn't need to go further down the socket just to see if longer match was possible). However, I don't see a way to do this with current perl. Is there? Should somebody code it?

Currently if I want to do linefree regexp on socket, I have to

undef $/;
$slurp=<SOCKET>;
$slurp =~ m/wha+t\n?\s*ever/;

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to do that. That kinda pisses me off, because then I'll have to emulate the pipe behaviour

$s=(length $`)+(length $&);
substr($slurp,$s) =~ m/post\s*match/;

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to do what I want, plus I have to download more than I actually needed. (I'm not quite sure about that)

In reply to RE: Re: reading from sockets by kaatunut
in thread reading from sockets by $CBAS

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