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Top Forums Programming Question about NULL Character & fgets() Post 302253964 by f.ben.isaac on Monday 3rd of November 2008 07:49:56 AM
Old 11-03-2008
Lightbulb Question about NULL Character & fgets()
Assume client send the message " Hello ", i get output such as

Sent mesg: hello
Bytes Sent to Client: 6


Code:
bytes_received = recv(clientSockD, data, MAX_DATA, 0);
if(bytes_received)
{
                        send(clientSockD, data, bytes_received, 0);
                        data[bytes_received] = '\0';
                        printf("Sent mesg: %s", data);
                        cout<<"Bytes Sent to Client: "<<bytes_received<<endl;
}

clients send that data as follows:

Code:
cout<<"you: ";
fgets(clientInput, MAX_DATA, stdin); 
send(sockfd, clientInput, strlen(clientInput), 0);

Why?

bytes_received should be 5, not 6 ..... Any idea?

**************************************************************

Lets say we have:

Code:
cout<<"Enter a port: ";
cin>>portNum;

fgets(clientInput, MAX_DATA, stdin);

Does fgets() takes a "\0" from the previous input, as you know cin leaves \0 there? getline() does...
Last edited by f.ben.isaac; 11-03-2008 at 09:02 AM..
 

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ppmtosixel

ppmtosixel(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.  The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
              pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order  of  magni-
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       -margin
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              fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.

PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.

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