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transcodeToString() Operation

Syntax

set aString = aBlob.transcodeToString(charset);

Semantics

The operation transcodes blobs encoded with a given character set into an internal string. The returned string is always UTF-8 encoded.

Substitutables

aString

Can be any variable or object attribute having type String

aBlob

Can be any variable or object attribute having type Blob.

charset

Specifies the encoding of the characters stored in aBlob.
charsetcan be any variable or object attribute having type String and denoting a valid character set (e.g. UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.). A list of supported character sets can be found in Charset Definitions.

Examples

This example transforms a blob that contains ISO-8859-1 encoded characters into an internal string:

set aString = aBlob.transcodeToString("ISO-8859-1");
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