socket write/read conflict?

[Mark Talluto]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

> A question about something Alex wrote.
> 
> -- And thank you, Alex. I'll be trying out what you wrote and see what
> happens. As for logging the results, I'd been doing that already, by
> having the script put results into a field. Odd thing is, this writing
> to a field seemed to have solved the simultaneity problem. Which made
> me think that printing the results caused a few milliseconds of delay
> that gave the read-write chance to function as expected. But then the
> problem reappeared.
> 
> Anyway, to my question.
> 
> What character should I use when reading/writing over sockets to
> indicate the end of a line of trasmitted data? CR? LF? Something else
> completely?
> 
> Thanks.


I use something like:  "!@#$%"
I make sure I append those characters to the end of data to be sent over a socket as well.


Best regards,

Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com