(Swift 2) Convert RSA Private Key to Public Key

Demonstrates how to get a public RSA key from a private RSA key.

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func chilkatTest() {
    let key = CkoPrivateKey()

    // Step 1: Load the private key from a source.
    // (Chilkat can load private keys from all types of formats, and from in-memory bytes or encoded strings.
    // see the online reference documentation for more options.)
    var success: Bool = key.LoadPemFile("qa_data/pem/VP_Private.pem")
    if success != true {
        print("\(key.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    // Step 2: Get the public key object from the private key object.
    var pubKey: CkoPublicKey? = key.GetPublicKey()
    if key.LastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(key.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    // Step 3: Save the public key in a desired format. 
    // (Chilkat can load or save public and private keys in many different formats.  See
    // the online reference documentation for more options.)

    // Saves to a PKCS8 PEM file.
    var bPreferPkcs1: Bool = false
    success = pubKey!.SavePemFile(bPreferPkcs1, path: "qa_data/pem/VP_Public.pem")
    if pubKey!.LastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(pubKey!.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    pubKey = nil

    print("Extracted and saved public key from private key.")

}