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Reads a line of data from socket and returns them as text.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
Socket | 4.3 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Parameter | Description | Example | Flags |
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SocketID | The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function. | $sock | |
Delimiter | Which character to use as delimiter. Pass number from 0 to 255 for the byte to use. e.g. 13 for CR line ending. Special handling is done if you pass 1310 as delimiter to cover CRLF as a 2 byte delimiter. |
13 | |
Encoding | The text encoding for result. Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order. Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ. |
UTF8 | Optional |
Returns text or error.
Read one line and decode them from Windows text encoding into FileMaker:
$value = MBS( "Socket.Read"; $sock; 13; "windows" )
This function is free to use.
Created 11st September 2014, last changed 9th November 2021