(PureBasic) Convert String to GSM 03.38

Demonstrates how to convert a string to the GSM character set. For more information about the GSM character set, see GSM Character Set

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.79 or greater. Support for the GSM character set was added in v9.5.0.79.

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IncludeFile "CkBinData.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    ; Demonstrates how to convert a string to the GSM character set byte representation.

    s.s = "support@chilkatsoft.com, {abc}"

    ; In the above string the a-z letters have the same 1-byte values in the GSM character set.
    ; The '@' character is the 0x00 byte in GSM.
    ; The curly brace chars are 2-bytes each in GSM -- each beginning with the 0x1B escape char.
    ; The '.', ' ', and ',' are the same in GSM as us-ascii.

    ; Let's convert to GSM.

    ; bdGsm will contain the GSM bytes.
    bdGsm.i = CkBinData::ckCreate()
    If bdGsm.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ; Append the string to bdGsm.  The 2nd arg "gsm" tells AppendString to
    ; convert the incoming string to the gsm byte representation.
    success.i = CkBinData::ckAppendString(bdGsm,s,"gsm")

    ; Let's examine what we have in hex:
    Debug CkBinData::ckGetEncoded(bdGsm,"hex")

    ; The result is:  737570706F7274006368696C6B6174736F66742E636F6D2C201B286162631B29

    ; Save the GSM bytes to a file.
    success = CkBinData::ckWriteFile(bdGsm,"qa_output/gsm.txt")


    CkBinData::ckDispose(bdGsm)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure