netstrings specification

Netstrings
D. J. Bernstein, [e-mail]
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1. Introduction
1. 介绍

?? A netstring is a self-delimiting encoding of a string. Netstrings are
?? very easy to generate and to parse. Any string may be encoded as a
?? netstring; there are no restrictions on length or on allowed bytes.
?? Another virtue of a netstring is that it declares the string size up
?? front. Thus an application can check in advance whether it has enough
?? space to store the entire string.

?? netstring是个自定界编码方式的字符串。netstring非常易于生成和解析。
?? 任何字符串都可编码为一个netstring；对长度或允许的字节没有限制。
?? netstring的另一个优点是，它预先声明字符串的长度。
?? 这样应用能事先检查是否具有足够的空间存储整个字符串。

?? Netstrings may be used as a basic building block for reliable network
?? protocols. Most hig……