[Gambas-user] IRC, telnet etc

[pezz]

>Well, to find a complete line wasting less resources, you could use
>Peek() method, which reads data from socket, but keeping it in the
>buffer for the next time:
>
>PUBLIC SUB MySock_Read()
>
>       DIM S As String
>       IF MySock.Status=Net.Connected THEN
>               S=MySock.Peek() ' We read current buffer
>               ' If there's a carry return...
>               IF INSTR(S,Chr(13)) or INSTR(S,Chr(10)) THEN
>                       ' we read just the line, keeping the
>                       ' rest in the buffer
>                       LINE INPUT #MySock,S
>                       getline(S)
>                       ' you don't have to test Chr(13) again
>                       ' in getline()
>               END IF
>       END IF
>END 
>
>You could also add a routine to test the lenght of the buffer, to
>discard it if it is too long (to prevent your program of beeing crashed
>by a malicious IRC hacker, for instance)
>
>Regards,
>
>Daniel Campos


That's neat Daniel, thanks. Idea: Gambas channel on IRC?

pezz