base64

Note: This is taken from the Chicken Wiki, where a more recent version could be available.

Description

Parsing and unparsing of base64 strings.

Documentation

procedure: (encode STRING)

Returns STRING encoded as base64 text (a string).

procedure: (decode STRING)

Returns the decoded string from the base64 data STRING.

Examples

<example> <init> (require-library base64) (import (prefix base64 base64:)) </init> <expr> (define s "thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog") (base64:encode s) </expr> <result> "dGhlcXVpY2ticm93bmZveGp1bXBzb3ZlcnRoZWxhenlkb2c=" </result> <expr> (base64:decode (base64:encode s)) </expr> <result> "thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog" </result> </example>

About this egg

Author

• James Bailey, ported to CHICKEN by felix
• Converted to C by Zbigniew

Version history

2.2

Fix encoding problem with chars > 127 [zb]

2.1

Ported to hygienic Chicken [Peter Bex]

2.0

Reimplemented in C for large speedup. [zbigniew]

1.3

Replaced implementation with a much faster version by James Bailey

1.2

Removed read syntax

1.1

Decoding accepts whitespace now.

1.0

Initial release.

License

Copyright (c) 2004 James Bailey.
Copyright (c) 2008 Jim Ursetto.

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