Send string data via UDP

[Andreik]

How can I send a string via UDP using C knowing that send function expect a pointer to a buffer containing the data to be transmitted. I tried to convert the string to a char buffer but some chars from original string are trimmed because contain some ASCII 0 chars. So, from initial 9 chars just 5 are sent.

char *sendbuffer = new char[packet.size()+1];
    sendbuffer[packet.size()] = 0;
    memcpy(sendbuffer,packet.c_str(),packet.size());

Is there any way to fix that?

[JohnOne]

Are you saying packet.c_str() is not copied to sendbuffer?

I imagine your second parameter might not be what memcpy wants.

"Pointer to the source of data to be copied, type-casted to a pointer of type const void*."

EDIT:

Forget that, it does not seem to be the case.

But memcpy does not touch or care about null chars, it copies bytes, whatever they are, so only my question is relevant.

Are you not posting the relevant code to your question?

Edited March 11, 2013 by JohnOne

[Andreik]

I post just the code that I used for conversion. It might be correctly write but send function will send bytes until null char is encounter.

[JohnOne]

Yes, but code you use to "send" is the relevant code to your problem.

I can understand that cout or printf might terminate at null, but a method of sending via udp I cannot.

[Richard Robertson]

John is correct. Socket functions don't care what data you send as long as you tell it to send 24 bytes (or whatever) it sends 24 bytes.

[Andreik]

I specified in first post what method I try to send this data. Here it's the part involved in sending data. Check out last line that display how many bytes has been sent. It returns 5 bytes even sendbuffer it's 11 bytes.

iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);
    if (iResult != NO_ERROR) {
      cout << "WSAStartup failed: " << iResult << endl;
      return 1;
    }
    ConnectSocket = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
    if (ConnectSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) {
        cout << "Error at socket: " << WSAGetLastError() << endl;
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    client.sin_family = AF_INET;
    client.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(IPAddress);
    client.sin_port = htons(Port);
    iResult = connect(ConnectSocket,(SOCKADDR*) &client, sizeof(client));
    if ( iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) {
        closesocket (ConnectSocket);
        cout << "Unable to connect to server: " << WSAGetLastError() << endl;
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    iResult = send( ConnectSocket, sendbuffer, (int)strlen(sendbuffer), 0 );
    if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) {
        printf("send failed: %d\n", WSAGetLastError());
        closesocket(ConnectSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    cout << "Bytes sent: " << iResult << endl;

[trancexx]

But you are using strlen to determine the size.

[Andreik]

Oupss how I miss that??

Thank you!