I''m slowly beginning to understand what and how sockets work. There is just one question that I really need to ask. Winsock... if I''m using the TCP/IP protocol suite, does that mean that I can only evcer send and recieve characters. I mean, what about floats? And what if I wanted to send a bool? Am I restricted to using chars and their ASCII codes to determine if they are integer values?

No, you can send and receive anything you''d like. Reading and writing to a socket is a bit like reading and writing from a file. The socket is analogous to a file handle.

The send() and recv() functions take a char pointer, but you can cast the data you wish to send. For example:

int someInteger = 5;send(mySocket, (char *)&someInteger, sizeof(someInteger), 0); 

Right. Think of the data as an array of bytes rather than an array of characters (a char is effectively a byte; sizeof(char) == sizeof(byte)). Since every possible data type is composed of bytes/chars, you have the ability to send any data type over a socket by casting, as MattB showed.

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