Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Text.DecodeFromBytes

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Text.DecodeFromBytes

Decode a byte string.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	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 Flags

text The text to process. "65 66 67"

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

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
text	The text to process.	"65 66 67"
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

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"

Blog Entries

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 9.3pr4

Release notes

Version 9.3
- Fixed bug in Text.DecodeFromBytes function.

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

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