Base64 to string

[TiGGi]

Hi,

I have a text that has been converted using ToBase64 and I am trying to convert it back to string. I am trying to use BinaryDecode with Base64 encoding to convert it but it keeps telling me that text must be valid binary object?
Please help!

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

"ToString" function?

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

Here is the documentation:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/functions_t-z_06.html

[TiGGi]

ToString on it's own doesn't work, I can make it work with tostringToBinary(text)) but Adobe documentation recommends to use BinaryDecode instad of the ToBinary

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

What I have seen that after getting the binary version you just need to use ToString to convert into string "text" format.

<cfset yourText = toString(toBinary(YourData64))>

[BKBK]

TiGGi wrote:
I have a text that has been converted using ToBase64 and I am trying to convert it back to string. I am trying to use BinaryDecode with Base64 encoding

Use BinaryEncode() not BinaryDecode()
stringData = BinaryEncode(toBinary(yourBase64Data), "base64")

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TiGGi wrote:
> I have a text that has been converted using ToBase64 and I am trying to convert it back to string.

Your question is confusing. Base64 text is a string. Do you mean you want to convert a base64 string back into binary? As BKBK mentioned, BinaryEncode will convert binary data to base64 and BinaryDecode will convert base64 back into binary. Do you understand the difference?

[TiGGi]

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Text was converted using toBase64 now I need to convert it back to text again.

I used toString(ToBinary(base64text)) to convert it back to text. My question was since CF documentation recommends using BinaryDecode instead of ToBinary, how do I use BinaryDecode? I was not able to figure it out.

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

<cfset myText = "This is my Unicode Text ğĞüÜıİşŞöÖçÇ">
<cfdump var="#myText#">
<br />
<cfset mybase64 = toBase64(myText)>
<cfdump var="#mybase64#">
<br />
<cfset myTextBack = toString(ToBinary(mybase64))>
<cfdump var="#myTextBack#">

This works.

Same thing with BineryDecode

<cfset myTextBack = toString(BinaryDecode((mybase64),'Base64'))>

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TiGGi wrote:
I used toString(ToBinary(base64text)) to convert it back to text. My question was since CF documentation recommends using BinaryDecode instead of ToBinary, how do I use BinaryDecode? I was not able to figure it out.

IIRC I believe they are referring to binary data specifically. For text you may still need to use the previous functions.