N7 version 24.01.23 released - Printable Version

Code:
' download.n7

' -----------



' You can use 'download(url, filename)' to download something from the internet to a destination

' file. The function returns true on success or false on failure. Depending on where you've put

' your N7 directory, this example might fail.

if download("https://naalaa.com/n7/CHANGELOG.txt", "my_file.txt")

    pln "Downloaded to file successfully!"

    pln

else

    pln "Download to file failed!"

    pln

endif

wait 1000



' If you know that the url will produce pure text, you can use 'download(url, TYPE_STRING)' to

' get the result as a string. If the download fails, an unset variable is returned.

aString = download("https://naalaa.com/n7/CHANGELOG.txt", TYPE_STRING)

if typeof(aString) ' TYPE_UNSET is 0, so we can just write this instead of 'if typeof(aString) = TYPE_STRING'

    pln "Downloaded to string successfully!"

    pln

    wait 1000

    ' Print the string.

    pln aString

    pln

else

    pln "Download to string failed!"

endif

wait 1000



' If you, for some reason, want the downloaded data as an array of bytes, you can use 'download(url,

' TYPE_TABLE)'. If the download fails, an unset variable is returned.

anArray = download("https://naalaa.com/n7/CHANGELOG.txt", TYPE_TABLE)

if typeof(anArray)

    pln "Downloaded to byte array successfully!"

    pln

    wait 1000

    ' Just print the first line of text (we know it's text this time)

    i = 0

    ' Use 'chr' to convert the ASCII values (bytes) to characters.

    while anArray[i] <> 10

        write chr(anArray[i])

        i = i + 1

    wend

    pln

else

    pln "Download to byte array failed!"

endif

pln



system "pause"