Thread: C programming: Sending data structures over sockets?

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    C programming: Sending data structures over sockets?

    Hi,
    Is there an easy way in C of sending a struct over a socket, where the struct contains a pointer to a char buffer(length of the char buffer can vary) and also contains pointers to other structs(these structs must be transmitted as well).

    Thanks

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    pointer to the string is obviously meaningless to the machine you're sending it to so I would suggest just sending a buffer with the appropriate values one after another. The string would be one of those values.

    Of course it is a little bit nicer to come up with a real data format like XML but heck that's probably overkill right?
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