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Socket.ReadLineHex

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
MBS( "Socket.ReadLineHex"; SocketID; Delimiter )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
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

Result

Returns text or error.

Description

Reads a line of data from socket and returns them as text.
The delimiter allows you to read from the buffer just one line. If two lines are in read buffer, we leave second line there for the next call.

Examples

Read one line and decode them from Windows text encoding into FileMaker:

$value = MBS( "Socket.Read"; $sock; 13; "windows" )

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This function is free to use.

Created 11st September 2014, last changed 9th November 2021


Socket.ReadLine - Socket.ReadMLLP