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Text.DecodeFromBytes
Decode a byte string.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Server | FileMaker Cloud | FileMaker iOS SDK |
Text | 3.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MBS( "Text.DecodeFromBytes"; text { ; Encoding } ) More
(old name: String.DecodeFromBytes)
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Example value |
---|---|---|
text | The text to process. | "65 66 67" |
Encoding | Optional 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, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform. |
"UTF-8" |
Result
Returns decoded text.
Description
Decode a byte string.A byte string here is a text string with byte numbers like this: "65 66 67" which as text would be "ABC".
Examples
Decode Hex as UTF-8:
MBS( "Text.DecodeFromBytes"; "65 66 67"; "utf8" )
Example result: "ABC"
See also
- Text.DecodeFromBase64
- Text.DecodeFromHex
- Text.DecodeFromHTML
- Text.DecodeFromURL
- Text.DecodeFromXML
- Text.EncodeToBytes
Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016
Text.DecodeFromBase64URL - Text.DecodeFromHTML
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