Receive a Bounded String from a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringMaxN, which receives and decodes text like ReceiveString but reads at most a given number of input bytes.

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$socket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket

#  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 = $true
$maxWaitMs = 5000
$success = $socket.Connect("example.com",5000,$bTls,$maxWaitMs)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  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.
$command = "STATUS`r`n"
$success = $socket.SendString($command)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Receive and decode text like ReceiveString, but read at most the given number of input bytes.
#  The limit is measured in bytes, not Unicode characters.
$firstChunk = $socket.ReceiveStringMaxN(64)
if ($socket.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$($firstChunk)