Separating Net messages

Attarr

Starting to use the Net library and notices that sometimes multiple messages would "stick" together and be read as one message. Ive started using a start and end flag and string indexOf to find complete messages out of the clusters. I was wondering if there is a built in or easier way to do this?

input "start""message1""end""start""message2""end"

output message1 message2

GoToLoop

• In terms of efficiency, 1 char value is faster than a whole String for searching.
• And no need for both "start" & "end". 1 is pretty enough to define as delimiter signal.
• I propose some unused char like \f as your DELIM at the end (or start) of every unit.
• You can stick w/ indexOf() or use split() to get the message separated as String[]. :)

https://processing.org/reference/split_.html
https://processing.org/reference/String_indexOf_.html

// forum.processing.org/two/discussion/10248/separating-net-messages

static final char DELIM = '\f';
static final String MSG = "Message" + DELIM + "received here" + DELIM + "and now!" + DELIM;

void setup() {
  println("Batch received:\n" + MSG + '\n');

  String[] msgs = split(MSG, DELIM);
  println("# of tokens in this transmission batch:", msgs.length - 1, '\n');
  printArray(msgs);

  exit();
}