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Decode from Binary Encoding and Append String

Demonstrates how to decode from a binary encoding (base64, hex, url, etc.) and then append the decoded string to a Chilkat StringBuilder object.

Note: This example uses the new DecodeAndAppend method added in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

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llSuccess = .F.

// We have the string "MÆRSK" in two forms:

// This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
lcNameWindows1252UrlEncoded = "M%C6RSK"

// This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
lcNameUtf8UrlEncoded = "M%C3%86RSK"

// Note that the result of loading a string into a string object 
// is the same if we correctly specify the underlying charset encoding.
// In the above example, we have the same string, but in different charset encodings
// subsequently URL encoded.
loSb1 = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
llSuccess = loSb1.DecodeAndAppend(lcNameWindows1252UrlEncoded,"url","windows-1252")

loSb2 = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
llSuccess = loSb2.DecodeAndAppend(lcNameUtf8UrlEncoded,"url","utf-8")

// sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
llBEqual = loSb1.ContentsEqualSb(loSb2,.T.)
? "bEqual = " + str(llBEqual)

// We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
? loSb1.GetAsString()
? loSb2.GetAsString()


release loSb1
release loSb2