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Receive Text up to a Delimiter Byte

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringUntilByte, which receives bytes until a specific raw byte value is found, then decodes the preceding bytes using StringCharset. The delimiter is excluded from the returned string.

Background. The delimiter search is purely byte-oriented and does not recognize character boundaries. A common delimiter is the linefeed byte (decimal 10).

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoSocket
    Boolean iBTls
    Integer iMaxWaitMs
    String sCommand
    String sLine
    String sTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatSocket)) To hoSocket
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSocket))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSocket
    End

    //  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.
    Move True To iBTls
    Move 5000 To iMaxWaitMs
    Get ComConnect Of hoSocket "example.com" 5000 iBTls iMaxWaitMs To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoSocket To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    //  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
    Set ComStringCharset Of hoSocket To "utf-8"
    //  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
    //  CRLF.
    Move "STATUS" + (character(13)) + (character(10)) To sCommand
    Get ComSendString Of hoSocket sCommand To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoSocket To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    //  Receive bytes until a specific raw byte value is found, then decode the preceding bytes using
    //  StringCharset.  The delimiter itself is excluded from the returned string.  Here the delimiter is
    //  the linefeed byte (decimal 10).
    Get ComReceiveStringUntilByte Of hoSocket 10 To sLine
    Get ComLastMethodSuccess Of hoSocket To bTemp1
    If (bTemp1 = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoSocket To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Showln sLine


End_Procedure