"Richard Lyman" <rich@lithinos.com> wrote:

>To start - I really don't know that much about programming (3 years self-taught in scripted web languages - Perl/PHP/Ruby), and I'm trying to learn OCaml...
>
>I've mostly dealt with persistent socket servers in other programming languages, and I'd like to write one in OCaml.
>
>I've read most of the book - Developing Applications with Objective Caml (English PDF), so I understand a little - but I'm still very unsure of myself.
>
>Here's the problem I'm trying to solve...
>
>I have a proprietary format I'm trying to read in through a socket - when I say proprietary I mean that the EOL character is the ASCII null character (\000) and not the '\n' character.
>
>I've looked at the examples in the OReilly book, but I'm not sure how to change the default End Of Line character (\n) to \000.
>
>Will I have to do some sort of pattern match on the stream so that I can deal with 'each line' using \000 as the EOL character?
>
>Do the input, input_line, read, or read_line methods accept a different EOL character as a parameter - or can I define the method differently?
>
>Since I can read in a certain amount of characters with methods like read, can I find the location of the ASCII null character and read from the stream until right after it?
>
>I hope I've asked good enough questions...
>
>Thanks for any help you guys can give!
>
>Let me know if anything's not clear enough...
>
>-Rich
>

Hi,

you could try something like this

let read_eol inchan =
  let rec f buf =
    let c = input_char inchan in
    if c = '\000' then Buffer.contents buf
    else begin Buffer.add_char buf c; f buf end
  in f (Buffer.create 64);;   

or in 'revised syntax which I prefer)

value read_eol inchan =
  f (Buffer.create 64) where rec f buf =
    let c = input_char inchan in
    if c = '\000' then Buffer.contents buf
    else do { Buffer.add_char buf c; f buf }
;

(Note there is no exception handling in examples)
Regards
-- 
Arturo Borquez


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