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Base64 Encoding

Remarks:

The encoding/base64 package contains several built in encoders. Most of the examples in this document will use base64.StdEncoding, but any encoder (URLEncoding, RawStdEncodign, your own custom encoder, etc.) may be substituted.

Encoding

const foobar = `foo bar`
encoding := base64.StdEncoding
encodedFooBar := make([]byte, encoding.EncodedLen(len(foobar)))
encoding.Encode(encodedFooBar, []byte(foobar))
fmt.Printf("%s", encodedFooBar)
// Output: Zm9vIGJhcg==

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Encoding to a String

str := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(`foo bar`))
fmt.Println(str)
// Output: Zm9vIGJhcg==

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Decoding

encoding := base64.StdEncoding
data := []byte(`Zm9vIGJhcg==`)
decoded := make([]byte, encoding.DecodedLen(len(data)))
n, err := encoding.Decode(decoded, data)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

// Because we don't know the length of the data that is encoded
// (only the max length), we need to trim the buffer to whatever
// the actual length of the decoded data was.
decoded = decoded[:n]

fmt.Printf("`%s`", decoded)
// Output: `foo bar`

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Decoding a String

decoded, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(`biws`)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

fmt.Printf("%s", decoded)
// Output: n,,

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Syntax:

func (enc *base64.Encoding) Encode(dst, src []byte)
func (enc *base64.Encoding) Decode(dst, src []byte) (n int, err error)
func (enc *base64.Encoding) EncodeToString(src []byte) string
func (enc *base64.Encoding) DecodeString(s string) ([]byte, error)

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