writeline

Write line of ASCII data to remote host over TCP/IP

Syntax

writeline(t,data)

Description

writeline(t,data) writes the ASCII text data followed by the terminator to the remote host specified by the TCP/IP client t. The function suspends MATLAB^® execution until the data and terminator are written.

Examples

Write and Read Line of ASCII Data from Remote Host

Create a TCP/IP client connection called t, connecting to a TCP/IP echo server with port 4000. To do so, you must have an echotcpip server running on port 4000.

echotcpip("on",4000)
t = tcpclient("localhost",4000)

t = 
  tcpclient with properties:

              Address: 'localhost'
                 Port: 4000
    NumBytesAvailable: 0

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Check the default ASCII terminator.

t.Terminator

ans = 
"LF"

Set the terminator to "CR" and write a string of ASCII data. The writeline function automatically appends the terminator to the data.

configureTerminator(t,"CR")
writeline(t,"hello")

Write another string of ASCII data with the terminator automatically appended.

writeline(t,"world")

Since the client is connected to an echo server, the data you write to the server is returned to the client. Read a string of ASCII data. The readline function returns data until it reaches a terminator.

readline(t)

ans = 
"hello"

Read a string of ASCII data again to return the second string that you wrote.

readline(t)

ans = 
"world"

Close the echo server and clear the TCP/IP client connection.

echotcpip("off")
clear t

Input Arguments

t — TCP/IP client

tcpclient object

TCP/IP client, specified as a tcpclient object.

Example: writeline(t,data) writes ASCII data to the TCP/IP client t.

data — ASCII data

character vector | string scalar

ASCII data to write, specified as a character vector or string scalar of text.

Example: writeline(t,"helloworld") writes the ASCII data "helloworld".

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced in R2020b