I've been using recv, haven't tried read yet. I actually tend to stray away from <SOCKET> and print SOCKET because I've read that they block. using send/recv and setting the length to 1 didn't work, because recv "expands or contracts the length of $var to the length actually read from the handle" which for some reason even with an autoflush on the socket is everything up to the newline character. read and sysread do the same thing.. do I need to use vectors and the 4 arg select to accomplish this?

-brad.. this sounds SO simple, so WHY ISN'T IT!? ;)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: how do I read from a socket one byte at a time? by reyjrar
in thread how do I read from a socket one byte at a time? by reyjrar

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