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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).
Note
This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.
JavaScript
var success = false;

var socket = new CkSocket();

//  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.
var bTls = true;
var maxWaitMs = 5000;
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  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.
var command = "STATUS\r\n";
success = socket.SendString(command);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  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).
var line = socket.ReceiveStringUntilByte(10);
if (socket.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    console.log(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

console.log(line);