I am working on a sockets based script. My question is what if the length of the recv is likely to change, but you need the following recv lines not to get corrupted?
Example $client->recv($bkserv,128); $client->recv($bkuser,128); $client->recv($dumppath,128); $client->recv($dumpname,128); Any one of these may be more or less than 128. Say in the top two lines bkserv ends up 12, then the bkuser ends up part of the $bkserv scalar. This information is likely to vary based on the system it is running against. Thanks.. Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>