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Socket.PeekAll

Peeks bytes from socket and returns them as text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Socket 4.3 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "Socket.PeekAll"; SocketID { ; Encoding } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
SocketID The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function. $sock
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

Result

Returns text or error message.

Description

Peeks bytes from socket and returns them as text.
This function will look how much is in read buffer and query all bytes inside.

Examples

Read all bytes and decode them from Windows text encoding into FileMaker:

$value = MBS( "Socket.PeekAll"; $sock; "windows" )

See also

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This function is free to use.

Created 11st September 2014, last changed 12nd November 2015


Socket.Peek - Socket.PeekAllHex