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Receive Text up to a Match into a StringBuilder

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveUntilMatchSb, which receives bytes until an exact byte sequence is found and appends the received text to a StringBuilder.

Background. The match string is encoded using StringCharset and compared byte-for-byte. The match may span multiple underlying network reads.

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var
success: Boolean;
socket: HCkSocket;
bTls: Boolean;
maxWaitMs: Integer;
command: PWideChar;
sb: HCkStringBuilder;
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, appending the received text to a
//  StringBuilder.  The match may span multiple underlying network reads.
sb := CkStringBuilder_Create();
success := CkSocket_ReceiveUntilMatchSb(socket,'<EOM>',sb);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkSocket__lastErrorText(socket));
    Exit;
  end;

response := CkStringBuilder__getAsString(sb);
if (CkStringBuilder_getLastMethodSuccess(sb) = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkStringBuilder__lastErrorText(sb));
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(response);

CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sb);