[Tutor] reading an input stream

[Alan Gauld]

On 24/12/15 18:54, richard kappler wrote:

> I think what I need to do would be analogous to (pardon if I'm using the
> wrong terminology, at this poing in the discussion I am officially out of
> my depth) sending the input stream to a buffer(s) until  the ETX for that
> message comes in, shoot the buffer contents to the parser while accepting
> the next STX + message fragment into the buffer, or something analogous.

You could use a Stringbuffer in memory. But simpler still is just to
append the bits in a file, one per incoming source. Any reason that
wouldn't work?

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