TCP / IP and Arrays?

[Ovid]

The client to server winsock program I am working is constantly sending a waleth of data back and forth. However, I just became aware I can not .senddata with arrays. What would you suggest for send several bits of information at once?

[MrShickadance]

what is in your arrays?

[Ovid]

Just strings.
Example:
Public Outgoing(1 to 20) as String
Outgoing(1) = Action
Outgoing(2) = UserID
etc...
Client.Senddata

[MrShickadance]

yeah you are going to have to send each individually unless you can just concat all the strings and send out one big chunk.

[ycsim]

you can combine the strings with something that is unique for the strings

for ex.
Outgoing(1)="Hi"
Outgoing(2)="I"
Outgoing(3)="am"
Outgoing(4)="John"
Outgoing(5)="!!!"

for i=1 to Ubound(Outgoing) Step 1
strOut=strOut+Outgoing(i)
next i

you can combine the elements with a "|" sign(Chr(127))

than you can separated them with | as the delimiter

[Ovid]

Yeah. Originally I was using the | as a seperator by which to take apart the information, but I am afraid that may end up causing to much thinking with the amount of data that will be sent back and forth from the amount of users at one time.