I am trying to read from a socket file created by vlc's rc interface here. As I am doing it via cgi, I need to chop the otherwise interactive stream of comand-response-command-etc. into consumable chunks.
Some of my code: 
# establish connection
my $socket = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(
     Peer    => '/path/to/socket.file.sock',
)

# issue command and read answer
print $socket "$some_command\n";
$html = "<html>". sockread($socket) "</html>";

sub sockread {
        my $socket = shift;
        my $content;
        while (my $line=<$socket>){
                $content .= $line;
                last if $line =~ /\[ End of /i;         # vlc's rc is 
+a bit inconsistent, some end like this
                last if $line =~ / returned 0 /i;       # others like 
+this
        }
        return $content;
}

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Is there a more elegant way to detect when the socket stops to spit out data? (As some outputs tend to lack my "stop words")

In reply to Chunked unix socket file reading - how? by Anonymous Monk

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