hbe02

I am not able to recieve ASCII characters from the server..?
i send somehting like this:
using
sd is the socket descriptor, buffer is a char*.
I recieve like this
The message received would be:
basicly garbage.. why does this happen? should i convert to a binary (1's and 0's) then send and decode after recieving..?

Cache

There is a good chance you're getting garbage for the same reason I said in your other thread, which you chose to ignore. Stop thinking that 'strlen()' is going to return the size of the array, cos it wont. And neither will sizeof() for a char*.

hbe02

But when i give give that parameter sizeof( ) which returns 4 for my char*. i only recieve up to 4 characters of my message.. this is when i send normal mesages like "HELLO SERVER"
On the other hand, when i give strlen() to that parameter. i recieve my complete message, so i assume that the parameter is like the upper limit of the mesage to be recieved. i just say strlen because when i declare my char* i say = new char[50] so strlen would be large enough (around 50) to accomodate any message i would send.
In the case of sending ASCII. im sending messages that around aroun 13000 ASCII characters. so i declare char * buffer = new char[25000] and i use strlen to recieve the whole 13000 ASCII characters..
But apparently from first post. im not Recieving them correctly. But this is my intention for using strlen() and not sizeof()

Cache

To quote myself (note the part in bold):
In the other thread I didn’t know the buffer was a char*, because you never said. Now, strlen() returns the number of characters in the array, not the size of the array itself. So it’s obviously not suitable to be passed as a function parameter that asks for the length of the array. Just to make clear: I’m talking about the third parameter in the ‘recvfrom’ function.

Since you know the buffer is 2500 bytes, why not just pass the number 2500 for the size? Which also makes me wonder why dynamically allocate the buffer at all, given that you always allocate the same amount of memory to it...

EDIT: Keep in mind that this stands regardless of any other problems in your code.

Cache.