NAME

base64 -
Procedures to encode and decode base64

SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8
package require base64  ? 2.3 ? 
::base64::encode  ? -maxlen maxlen ?   ? -wrapchar wrapchar ?  string
::base64::decode string

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

encoding, base64