Receive Text up to a Delimiter Byte

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringUntilByte, which receives bytes until a specific raw byte value is found, then decodes the preceding bytes using StringCharset. The delimiter is excluded from the returned string.

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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 = true
maxWaitMs = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
if (success == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  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 == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Receive bytes until a specific raw byte value is found, then decode the preceding bytes using
#  StringCharset.  The delimiter itself is excluded from the returned string.  Here the delimiter is
#  the linefeed byte (decimal 10).
line = socket.receiveStringUntilByte(10)
if (socket.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print line + "\n";