Classic ASP

Decode from Binary Encoding and Append String

Demonstrates how to decode from a binary encoding (base64, hex, url, etc.) and then append the decoded string to a Chilkat StringBuilder object.

Note: This example uses the new DecodeAndAppend method added in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

' We have the string "MÆRSK" in two forms:

' This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
nameWindows1252UrlEncoded = "M%C6RSK"

' This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
nameUtf8UrlEncoded = "M%C3%86RSK"

' Note that the result of loading a string into a string object 
' is the same if we correctly specify the underlying charset encoding.
' In the above example, we have the same string, but in different charset encodings
' subsequently URL encoded.
set sb1 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sb1.DecodeAndAppend(nameWindows1252UrlEncoded,"url","windows-1252")

set sb2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sb2.DecodeAndAppend(nameUtf8UrlEncoded,"url","utf-8")

' sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
bEqual = sb1.ContentsEqualSb(sb2,1)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "bEqual = " & bEqual) & "</pre>"

' We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sb1.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sb2.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>