Re: [boost] base64 ?

Subject: Re: [boost] base64 ?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-15 14:24:39

On 5/15/17 1:11 AM, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 15/05/2017 19:18, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Greger wrote:
>>> Second:is there any interest in base64? I have a library for encoding
>>> and
>>> decoding, which I could contribute.
>>
>> I think it'd be nice to have, I've needed it before.
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> According to this, Boost already has the parts, albeit possibly a bit
> hidden away:
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7053538/how-do-i-encode-a-string-to-base64-using-only-boost

Indeed, if one just googles boost base64 he'll find a large number of 
hits on pages which explain how to do this using the component in the 
serialization library.  The only issue with the one in the serialization 
library is that as it stands, it doesn't do the padding with '=' because 
the serialization library doesn't need it.  But the posts alluded to 
above demonstrate how to add this.

The serialization component which deals this is called "dataflow 
iterators" and the base64 component is just single usage case of this 
approach.

Robert Ramey

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