I'm thinking about doing a simple UDP Server/Client program to improve my rather weak perl abilities.
I basically choose UDP over TCP/IP because I haven't got the hang on threading/forking, which seems to be
necessary when you want to do a multi-client TCP/IP server.

But with UDP I stumbled across another problem. Since data could be received in any
order from any user I need to sort the input and work through it.

Now I thought of a loop that does the following for every incoming packet :

- Identify which user sent the packet (So they would need to contain something like header data)
- Check which number this packet is in a row of packets by the same user (03 of 07 for example)
- Put the packet in some nested data structure
- Check whether the packet row of some user is completed :

- if yes -> echo the packets to the other users
- if no -> next loop

Is this the (or a) "right way" to do this? Or is there a better solution (which certainly wouldn't surprise me).
Or am I missing something more fundamental?

I am thankful for any help.

In reply to Developing an UDP chat server/client by Mandor

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