FILEIO Subroutine

Encodes a files content to textual string.

 

call FileToHexString(FileName_SV,

                     HexString_SV)

Parameters

FileName_SV

A string containing the filename of the file to be encoded.

HexString_SV

The target string to be populated with Hexadecimal encoded data.

Description

To enable binary files to be sent to a Web Server without being corrupted, this function performs a simple encoding of the content of the specified file. Each byte of the file is converted to two hexadecimal characters. Due to this simple form of encoding, the size of the string is double the size of the specified file.

Errors

FIO_E_BADMODE

The file must be available to read.

FIO_E_OUTOFMEM

Cannot allocate sufficient memory to process the file

See Also

HexStringToFile( ) subroutine.