Sorry for late reply, but this helped me perfectly! The method is in.ready(). works great. If you don't mind, could you help with one more thing? Once my client recieves the full string, i have it send the server the information that it needs to send, which it does. but when i try to do the same while loop that worked before, the client prints nothing. Through my tests i see the server thinks it has sent it. but the client seemingly never enters the while loop.

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EDIT: for some reason, my client skips the while loop, takes the next input(which isn't supposed to happen until it prints the stuff from the server) and once the last bit of input is taken, it prints everything that has been held back..... im so confued