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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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Socket;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Socket socket = new Socket();

        // 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.
        boolean bTls = true;
        int maxWaitMs = 5000;
        try {
            socket.connect("example.com", 5000, bTls, maxWaitMs);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
        socket.setStringCharset("utf-8");
        // Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
        // CRLF.
        String command = "STATUS\r\n";
        String line;
        try {
            socket.sendString(command);

            // 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).
            line = socket.receiveStringUntilByte(10);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(line);
    }
}