Lua

Appending Strings to BinData

Demonstrates appending strings to a BinData.. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local binData1 = chilkat.BinData.new()

-- Append a string using a 1-byte per char encoding
binData1:append_string("This is a test", "windows-1252")
print(binData1:get_encoded("hex"))
-- The bytes contained within the binData1 (in hex) are: 54,68,69,73,20,69, ...

local binData2 = chilkat.BinData.new()

-- Append a string using a 2-byte per char encoding
binData2:append_string("This is a test", "utf-16")
print(binData2:get_encoded("hex"))
-- The bytes contained within the binData2 (in hex) are: 54,00,68,00,69,00,73,00,20,00,69,00, ...