Receive a Bounded String from a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringMaxN, which receives and decodes text like ReceiveString but reads at most a given number of input bytes.

#include <C_CkSocket.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkSocket socket;
    BOOL bTls;
    int maxWaitMs;
    const char *command;
    const char *firstChunk;

    success = FALSE;

    socket = CkSocket_Create();

    //  Connect to the server using TLS.  The 3rd argument enables the TLS handshake after the TCP
    //  connection succeeds; the 4th is the maximum time to wait, in milliseconds.
    bTls = TRUE;
    maxWaitMs = 5000;
    success = CkSocket_Connect(socket,"example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSocket_lastErrorText(socket));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        return;
    }

    //  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
    CkSocket_putStringCharset(socket,"utf-8");
    //  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
    //  CRLF.
    command = "STATUS\r\n";
    success = CkSocket_SendString(socket,command);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSocket_lastErrorText(socket));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        return;
    }

    //  Receive and decode text like ReceiveString, but read at most the given number of input bytes.
    //  The limit is measured in bytes, not Unicode characters.
    firstChunk = CkSocket_receiveStringMaxN(socket,64);
    if (CkSocket_getLastMethodSuccess(socket) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSocket_lastErrorText(socket));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        return;
    }

    printf("%s\n",firstChunk);


    CkSocket_Dispose(socket);

    }