:gen_tcp read until

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Is there a way to read off a socket until certain characters are reached? I want something like packet: :line where the stop character can get changed from \n to something else.

Is that possible with gen_tcp?

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That is the ol’ Erlang {line_delimiter, Char} option, so in Elixir that would be line_delimiter: ?j or so if you wanted the ‘j’ character to be the delimiter as an example, if I remember correctly (been a while since I’ve implemented a low-level tcp protocol in erlang, been using higher level things for a while now).

Reference: Erlang -- inet

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thank you!

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