You are, of course, perfectly within your rights to completely ignore it.

No, I don't mean to ignore it, I just gave it a try. But it turned out that it's more difficult and it most likely won't work like that (see below).

The buffer has a fixed length--2 + 4 + 32 + 1 + 32 + 1 = 72--so deal with it that way.

It turned out that this is not the case. The 'name' and 'clan' fields are max 32 chars, not fixed at 32 chars. :( When I read constant lengths from it, it only works if all clients use the maximum length for both 'name' and 'clan'.

Funny that you mention Java, btw. You're right: I had to write lots of Java for university recently and the code I may be influenced by that. ;)

On the other hand, this is not just a short script of 50 lines, it's supposed to become a (command line) multi-game server browser. So there's quite a few different buffers I'll have to handle. That's why I structured the code a bit more than I usually tend to in perl...

In reply to Re^4: Parsing protocol data: unpack and bytes by dichtfux
in thread Parsing protocol data: unpack and bytes by dichtfux

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