[Gambas-user] Base 64 question

[Benoît Minisini]

> 2011/4/28 Caveat <Gambas at ...1950...>:
> > xml.Decode...pfft!  Funny, I never would have thought to look in gb.xml
> > for a base64 decoder!
> 
> true ... i've found it in the past when i've made a little program to
> extract mail attachement in old mail directories
> 

Maybe encoding & decoding BASE64 should be standard in Gambas? I can do the 
same remark for URL encoding & decoding functions located in gb.web at the 
moment.

I just have to find good names for the functions...

	ToBase64$()
	ToUrl$()
	FromBase64$()
	FromUrl$() 

Or two generic functions like Conv$(). Encode() and Decode() with a code 
argument: gb.Base64, gb.URI...

They won't match Shell$(), Quote$(), Unquote$(), Html$(). But maybe it's not 
that important.

If people are aware of other useful encoding/decoding functions, they should 
tell now.

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Benoît Minisini