Visual Basic 6.0

MIME Header Q and B Encoding and Decoding

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Demonstrates how to Q and B encode/decode. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim sb As New ChilkatStringBuilder

success = sb.Append("This is a test")

Debug.Print sb.GetEncoded("B","utf-8")
' output is:
' =?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=

Debug.Print sb.GetEncoded("Q","iso-8859-1")
' output is:
' =?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?=

Dim sb2 As New ChilkatStringBuilder

success = sb2.Append("=?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=")
success = sb2.Decode("B","utf-8")
Debug.Print sb2.GetAsString()

' output is:
' This is a test

sb2.Clear 
success = sb2.Append("=?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?=")
success = sb2.Decode("Q","utf-8")
Debug.Print sb2.GetAsString()

' output is:
' This is a test

' "B" or "Q" will decode both B and Q.
sb2.Clear 
success = sb2.Append("=?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?= 123 =?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=")
success = sb2.Decode("Q","utf-8")
Debug.Print sb2.GetAsString()

' output is:
' This is a test 123 This is a test