On Aug 18, Octavian Rasnita said:
I want to use regular expressions (or other techniques) to split a data
stream which has the following format:
<size_of_next_body><body><size_of_next_body><body>...
The <size_of_next_body> is a 4 digit number and tells the size of the next
body it should get.
You can roll your own with substr() and what-not, or you can use the
unpack() function to do it for you:
my @chunks = unpack "(A4/A)*", $buffer;
The A4/A means "read four characters and get that many characters"; the
(...)* around that means "do this repeatedly.
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