A great way to do this. There are plenty of other ways. Just identify the data in any way you like so you can classify it on the receiver.
2010/1/17 Thorbjørn Lindeijer <[email protected]> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 19:50, Alex Milstead <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Also, Jay you mentioned earlier that it was easy to do simple data-type > > checking on the receiving end. I'm a bit of a fledgling network > programmer > > -- I'm still definitely becoming more acquainted the vast amount of > > unfamiliar programming techniques in this particular arena. The only > > surefire type-checking system I know about in programming is in java > (=/), > > with it's "instanceof" operator. As far as I know this type of mechanism, > or > > anything similar, doesn't really exist in C/C++. So my next question is, > if > > we're sending binary data along and receiving it as binary data, what's > the > > most efficient way of type-checking the probable struct being piped > through? > > You give it a number which designates its type. You'd usually prepend > such a number to each of your messages, so that you know how to > interpret them on the other end. > > Cause united breaks guitars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
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