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Text.DecodeFromBytes

Decode a byte string.

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Text 3.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MBS( "Text.DecodeFromBytes"; text { ; Encoding } )

(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

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016


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