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in thread Signed Long Hash

One follow up question - how does one convert a numeric value (eg -281581062704388899) to base64 in perl similar to java's call:

Base64.getEncoder().withoutPadding().encodeToString(Longs.toByteArray(val));

to get the java base64 encoded string: '/Befg+4HJN0'

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Re^3: Signed Long Hash
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jun 15, 2017 at 17:45 UTC

    See MIME::Base64 and perhaps pack.

    Update: Although I do not receive the same result - are you sure about the input and output?

    use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Base64 'encode_base64';

use Test::More tests => 1;

is (encode_base64((pack 'q', -281581062704388899), ''), '/Befg+4HJN0')
+;

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    gives '3SQH7oOfF/w=' instead.

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      Thanks. What I was trying to do was something similar, but this might not yield the same results to what i'm trying to achieve? I thought I had to convert the value to an array of bytes first and then convert that to base64. Something like:

      $signed="-281581062704388899";
$bits = unpack("B*", pack("N", $signed));
$base64 = encode_base64(pack("B*", $bits), "");
#or
$base64 = encode_base64($bits);

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