Re^2: How to Base64 Encode an array variable??

Note that by base64-encoding your bytes, you're making your data 25% bigger for nothing.

It does allow you to turn binary data into printable text, for storage or transfer. I like to use it to include small images in scripts as data.

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Re^3: How to Base64 Encode an array variable?? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2010 at 16:58 UTC
I wasn't speaking generally, only about the case at hand. One does not print HTTP file transfers or include them in scripts.	[reply]