C++

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.

C++

#include <CkStringBuilder.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    //  This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
    const char *nameWindows1252UrlEncoded = "M%C6RSK";

    //  This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
    const char *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.
    CkStringBuilder sb1;
    success = sb1.DecodeAndAppend(nameWindows1252UrlEncoded,"url","windows-1252");

    CkStringBuilder sb2;
    success = sb2.DecodeAndAppend(nameUtf8UrlEncoded,"url","utf-8");

    //  sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
    bool bEqual = sb1.ContentsEqualSb(sb2,true);
    std::cout << "bEqual = " << bEqual << "\r\n";

    //  We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
    std::cout << sb1.getAsString() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << sb2.getAsString() << "\r\n";
    }