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From: Oleg <lego12239@yandex.ru>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] enc64() vs dec64()
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:30:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150622103017.GA9687@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5jrTpAf=PEHcTH53Pv9kCYVJaBjPfV_s38LcjDdbpDMRw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> On 22 June 2015 at 10:05, Oleg <lego12239@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> > May be a stupid question. enc64() returns a null terminated string. But
> > dec64()
> > not doing the same. What is the reason for it?
> >
> 
> enc: binary -> string
> dec: string -> binary
> 
> binary is just an array of bytes, and there isn't a special terminating
> value

You're right. I use base64 to mask a white space symbols in strings and i
completely forgot about the main base64 purpose :-).

Thank you!

-- 
Неманов Олег (Nemanov Oleg)



      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-22 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-22  9:05 Oleg
2015-06-22 10:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-06-22 10:30   ` Oleg [this message]

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