Receive Text up to a Matching Sequence

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveUntilMatch, which receives bytes until an exact byte sequence is found. The match string is encoded using StringCharset and compared byte-for-byte.

var
success: Integer;
socket: TChilkatSocket;
bTls: Integer;
maxWaitMs: Integer;
command: WideString;
response: WideString;

begin
success := 0;

socket := TChilkatSocket.Create(Self);

//  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 := 1;
maxWaitMs := 5000;
success := socket.Connect('example.com',5000,bTls,maxWaitMs);
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(socket.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
socket.StringCharset := 'utf-8';
//  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
//  CRLF.
command := 'STATUS' + #13#10;
success := socket.SendString(command);
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(socket.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Receive bytes until an exact byte sequence is found.  The match string is encoded using
//  StringCharset and compared byte-for-byte.  Here the server marks the end of its response with an
//  application-defined marker.
response := socket.ReceiveUntilMatch('<EOM>');
if (socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(socket.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(response);