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Perl

Receive Text up to a Match into a StringBuilder

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveUntilMatchSb, which receives bytes until an exact byte sequence is found and appends the received text to a StringBuilder.

Background. The match string is encoded using StringCharset and compared byte-for-byte. The match may span multiple underlying network reads.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$socket = chilkat::CkSocket->new();

#  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.
$bTls = 1;
$maxWaitMs = 5000;
$success = $socket->Connect("example.com",5000,$bTls,$maxWaitMs);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
$socket->put_StringCharset("utf-8");
#  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
#  CRLF.
$command = "STATUS\r\n";
$success = $socket->SendString($command);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Receive bytes until an exact byte sequence is found, appending the received text to a
#  StringBuilder.  The match may span multiple underlying network reads.
$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $socket->ReceiveUntilMatchSb("<EOM>",$sb);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$response = $sb->getAsString();
if ($sb->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $sb->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $response . "\r\n";