Lua Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.87+

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. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

-- This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
local nameWindows1252UrlEncoded = "M%C6RSK"

-- This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
local nameUtf8UrlEncoded = "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.
local sb1 = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local success = sb1:decode_and_append(nameWindows1252UrlEncoded, "url", "windows-1252")

local sb2 = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
success = sb2:decode_and_append(nameUtf8UrlEncoded, "url", "utf-8")

-- sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
local bEqual = sb1:contents_equal_sb(sb2, true)
print("bEqual = " .. tostring(bEqual))

-- We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
print(sb1:get_as_string())
print(sb2:get_as_string())