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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.

Background. The comparison is case-sensitive with no Unicode normalization. This is useful for reading a message that ends with an application-defined marker delimiting the end of a response.

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var
success: Boolean;
socket: HCkSocket;
bTls: Boolean;
maxWaitMs: Integer;
command: PWideChar;
response: PWideChar;

begin
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) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkSocket__lastErrorText(socket));
    Exit;
  end;

//  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' + #13#10;
success := CkSocket_SendString(socket,command);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkSocket__lastErrorText(socket));
    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 := CkSocket__receiveUntilMatch(socket,'<EOM>');
if (CkSocket_getLastMethodSuccess(socket) = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkSocket__lastErrorText(socket));
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(response);

CkSocket_Dispose(socket);