Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Socket.WriteMLLP

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Socket.WriteMLLP

Writes text to the socket.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
Socket	3.1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "Socket.WriteMLLP"; SocketID; Text { ; Encoding } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

SocketID The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function. $sock

Text The text to send. "Hello World"

Encoding The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is native.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ. "UTF8" Optional

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
SocketID	The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function.	$sock
Text	The text to send.	"Hello World"
Encoding	The text encoding for text parameter. Default is native. 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 the number of bytes written or an error message.

Description

Writes text to the socket.
This function wraps the given text into a MLLP packet by adding start and end bytes.

Result is -1 if socket can't write. See Socket.LastError for error code.
Changed in v10.4 to return error if socket is closed or disconnected instead of -1.

Examples

Write something:

MBS( "Socket.WriteMLLP"; $sock; "Hello World" )

Write something with DOS text encoding:

MBS( "Socket.WriteMLLP"; $sock; "Umlauts: äöü"; "DOS" )

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