Hi everyone

I'm trying to create a perl script which encodes images to base64. This shall be used to transfer images via xml to another system.

I created the following script to read the capture.png file: 

use MIME::Base64;
open (my $image, 'Z:\capture.png') or die "$!";
$raw_string = do{ local $/ = undef; <$image>; };
$encoded = encode_base64( $raw_string );

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For the beginning, I just re-write into a new file photo.png 

my $decoded= MIME::Base64::decode_base64($encoded);
open my $fho, '>', 'Z:\photo.png' or die $!;
binmode $fho;
print $fho $decoded;

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The photo.png is created with exactly the same size as the input photo, however the newly created file can't be opened.

I also comared the base64 value with the value created by an online encoding webpage (using the same input photo) and this is different.

I would be very happy if somebody could help me out with this!

Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards zurich

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