sockets and fputs

[newbie30]

Hi All;

I have a problem here. I have a file and i used fgets to read a line from the file and when i print it out its grand. So when i try to use this with sockets i hit a problem.

I fget into an array and then write it to the socket eg
write(sockfd, buffer 255);


So when my server receives this, and the code goes like this

char buffer[256];
read(sock, buffer, 256);
fputs(buffer, stdout);

I get what i sent over but alot of rubbish is printed out after it. I think its printing out my string and the remainer of the buffer. Am i right in this thinking abd how do i solve the problem and why does it occur when transporting over the socket?

Should i use strlen(buffer) instead of the size of 256?

THanks

[bithub]

If you just want to send the string, then this makes more sense:

write(sockfd, buffer strlen(buffer)+1);

This way you send just the string and the null terminator.

[newbie30]

Thats what i thought, my mistake was instead of use strlen i included value 256 and which would cause rubbish to be printed after a string that was 10 chars long. Thats right isnt it?

[bithub]

Well, if there was a null terminating character after the 10 string chars, then there shouldn't be any rubbish printed. fputs will print characters until it finds the null terminator.