Hello Monks,

I have a question I have been kicking around for a few days, and I'm baffled. Here is my problem, I will try to explain the problem as indepth as I possible can. First off, I am reading data from a constant data stream, and therefore I need to parse the data as it codes through, byte by byte. The data comes in, in a form such as this: 
14|XXX\XXX|1.2541|1.2546|0|2001-07-17 10:25:22.17 0x00  16|XXX\XXX|1.2
+547|1.2552|0|2001-07-17 10:26:23.23 0x00

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and on and on. The 0x00 is there to mean that each "string" is seperated by hex 00. What I am trying to do is read all the data from each "string" into one variable and stop reading when 0x00 is reached. Now, for some reason, I am having a heck of a time getting it to work. Here is my code (please note that this is only a portion, obviously): 
do {
  $socket->recv($response, 1);
  $data = $data . $response;
} until ($response == hex(0x00));
print "$data\n";
close($socket) || die "Error terminating socket connection...\n";

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Now, basically what happens is when reading if the code hits either 0 | , . - , it interprets this as hex 0x00 and terminates. Any insights?


Thanks, Apterigo

Edit ar0n 2001-07-18

In reply to Parsing data from a data feed by Apterigo

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