[Gambas-user] Strings and Network input ...

[Gareth Bult]

Hi, 

I'm currently developing an IMAP4 client component and I seem to have run into a problem. 

I'm using _Read on a Socket object when data comes in, then I'm doing; 

$socket.EndOfLine = "\r\n" 
LINE INPUT #$socket,buffer 
Process(buffer) 

Now I understand this to mean that Process() will only get called with "complete" lines. 
i.e. lines that were terminated by a CRLF. 

If I issue a SEARCH command against my IMAP server, I get a variable length string, and for a large folder I'm expecting a string of length 41140 to come through. 
However (!) Process is being called TWICE, the first time with a string of length 41116 and the second of 24. 

So it "looks like" LINE INPUT is running out of buffer space and silently splitting the string in two ... (????) 

I'd rather not have to code CRLF detection for READ .. is this a bug, something fixable, or am I missing something ? 

tia 
Gareth. 

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