From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T23:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: socket read, write when string found.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> Almost certainly I'd say you want sock.read(n), not sock.gets, because
> it doesn't look like the binary data you're reading ends with a newline
> character.

I would use #write and #read as default for binary protocols.  If the
protocol has some kind of delimiter sequence #gets might actually work
for reading, because you can pass a parameter for the delimiter:

irb(main):001:0> s = StringIO.new("fooXXbarXX")
=> #<StringIO:0x109a4060>
irb(main):002:0> s.gets 'XX'
=> "fooXX"
irb(main):003:0> s.gets 'XX'
=> "barXX"
irb(main):004:0> s.gets 'XX'
=> nil

Kind regards

robert

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