New StringTools in 11.13.3 beta

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[Topic split from EML (email files) columns]

I did not try yet, but that's cool. o) Decoding Base64 in js is actually not a problem, various functions/tools available and working, but for quoted printable, I don't know, so that makes life easy. Having these native should also be much quicker in every way, much appreciated! o)

Was this functionality already available internally because of the mail-stuff built into DO? Could you add support for creating MD5-hashes in the same way? That would be handy for some scripts that currently generate MD5 hashs by js-code, which is slow as hell on specific configurations.

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Yeah StringTools is just a wrapper around code we already had, so it made sense to expose it.

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There's an FSUtil.Hash function which will work if you don't mind writing the thing you want to MD5 to a temp file to hash it.

I guess we could add a Blob.Hash method to avoid the need for temp files when the data is in-memory.

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Or FSUtil.Hash could just take a Blob...

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Yeah, that's probably better. Fits with FSUtil.Open which already does that.

Is there a simple way to turn a string into a Blob (of UTF-16, I guess)? If not that might be useful for this and in general.

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Thanks. o)

The data I like to hash is in memory (as a string), so something that does: var md5 = FSUtil.Hash(myString); would be handy! o)
Any required in-memory conversion right before is ok, messing with tmp-files is something I'd like to avoid though.

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These do not seem to work, both are codepage 1252(?):
=?windows-1252?Q?Best=E4tigung_Ihrer_Zahlung_an_lioncast=5Fgmbh?=
=?Cp1252?Q?Neue_Angebote_Ihrer_bevorzugten_Verk=E4ufer?=

Maybe just a bad prefix? What's the correct syntax to pass the code-page ID, just the id (the number only)?
I tried some variations but did not succeed to decode these.. not supported? o)

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The codepage lookup is done using the table in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Codepage, based on that you would need to use iso-8859-1. You could also use 1252.