It's probably safer to get the server to send the numbers as ASCII text, to avoid disagreements about endianness and floating-point representation. Then, to extract the numbers, you could use [moocow/bytes2any] or make a custom parser using [pdlua].
Martin
On 2013-03-09 10:55, Petar Jercic wrote:
Apparently [netclient] on the Pure Data side cannot receive nothing else than ; delimited messages. So the solution for the problem: *My question is, is there a way to send something other than string message to Pure Data, like byte-stream or serialized number stream? Can Pure Data receive such messages?*
The solution is to use [tcpclient], it can receive byte-stream data.
Now I have another problem regarding the data read, on how to convert it back to usable numbers.
From my UNIX server I am sending a structure
typedef struct { int var_code; int sample_time; int hr; float hs; } phy_data;
Sample data might be 2 1000000 51 2000.56
When received and printed in Pure Data I get output like this:
: 2 0 0 0 104 34 9 0 51 0 0 0 235 50 48 69
You can notice number 2 and number 51 clearly, I guess the others are correct as well. Might be some network inversion of LSB/MSB.
*How can I get these numbers back to a usable format and get them in separate variables?
*//Petar*
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