I am making some changes to old code this week, and I am getting annoyed with my method of socket communications... The old (working) code sent a series of values as a %-delimited string, which is then split on the receiving end into an array. Ugly!

So, I decided to rewrite it quickly to send and receive an array, and do away with the ugly %-delimited string. But it's not working. No errors on either end, but it hangs up the system. A half dozen Google searches later, and I've come to the conclusion that what I'm trying to do is not possible, and that %-delimited string is there for a good reason.

Does anybody here have insight into this? Is my assessment correct? Is there a better way than what currently works?

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In reply to Send/receive array through IO::Socket? by wolfger

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