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CURL.GetInputAsText

Returns the input of the transaction as text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
CURL 2.8 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "CURL.GetInputAsText"; curl { ; Encoding; preserveLineEndings } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
curl The CURL session handle. $curl
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.
"UTF-8" Optional
preserveLineEndings Whether to change line endings to CR for FileMaker.
By default (0) we change the line endings to CR, so FileMaker has no trouble.
Pass 1 to keep whatever line endings are there.
0 Optional

Result

The input data as text.

Description

Returns the input of the transaction as text.
You are responsible for detecting decoding.

Plugin version 5.2 and newer replace newlines automatically for you to match what FileMaker uses (Mac line endings).

Examples

Write input to a text file:

Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "Text.WriteTextFile"; MBS( "CURL.GetInputAsText"; $curl; "UTF-8"; 1 ); "/tmp/test.txt" ) ]

See also

Release notes

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 16th December 2020


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