base64(n) 2.3 "base64 en- & decoding"

Name

base64 - Procedures to encode and decode base64

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Synopsis

Description

This package provides procedures to encode binary data into base64 and back.

::base64::encode ?-maxlen maxlen? ?-wrapchar wrapchar? string

Base64 encodes the given binary string and returns the encoded result. Inserts the character wrapchar every maxlen characters of output. wrapchar defaults to newline. maxlen defaults to 60.

::base64::decode string

Base64 decodes the given string and returns the binary data. The decoder ignores whitespace in the string.

Keywords

base64, encoding