Read Lines from a Socket

debio Joined: 05/24/08 Posts: 17

Posted: 05/24/08 00:25:43 I'm writing a network application that will need to read lines of text from a TCP Socket. I'm very unsure of how this should be done, should I have the socket store to a buffer somewhere and somehow pull out one line at a time or... the standard iteration approach that people use with text doesn't really work here...

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kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 05/24/08 03:18:17 -- Modified: 05/24/08 03:18:51 by kris The iteration method works quite well with Tango. Here's one example: import tango.io.Console; import tango.io.stream.LineStream; void readLines (InputStream network) { foreach (line; new LineInput(network)) Cout(line).newline; } The provided InputStream might be a SocketConduit
debio Joined: 05/24/08 Posts: 17	Posted: 05/24/08 04:19:18 Does that block until a line comes in? If not, will it iterate over previous lines received? That's what made me wonder if it would work.
kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 05/25/08 02:09:56 it will block if the provided input stream blocks (and they often do by default)