Is there a freely available Base64 decoding code snippet in C++?
Here's my modification of the implementation that was originally written by René Nyffenegger. And why have I modified it? Well, because it didn't seem appropriate to me that I should work with binary data stored within std::string
object ;)
base64.h:
#ifndef _BASE64_H_ #define _BASE64_H_ #include <vector> #include <string> typedef unsigned char BYTE; std::string base64_encode(BYTE const* buf, unsigned int bufLen); std::vector<BYTE> base64_decode(std::string const&); #endif
base64.cpp:
#include "base64.h" #include <iostream> static const std::string base64_chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" "0123456789+/"; static inline bool is_base64(BYTE c) { return (isalnum(c) || (c == '+') || (c == '/')); } std::string base64_encode(BYTE const* buf, unsigned int bufLen) { std::string ret; int i = 0; int j = 0; BYTE char_array_3[3]; BYTE char_array_4[4]; while (bufLen--) { char_array_3[i++] = *(buf++); if (i == 3) { char_array_4[0] = (char_array_3[0] & 0xfc) >> 2; char_array_4[1] = ((char_array_3[0] & 0x03) << 4) + ((char_array_3[1] & 0xf0) >> 4); char_array_4[2] = ((char_array_3[1] & 0x0f) << 2) + ((char_array_3[2] & 0xc0) >> 6); char_array_4[3] = char_array_3[2] & 0x3f; for(i = 0; (i <4) ; i++) ret += base64_chars[char_array_4[i]]; i = 0; } } if (i) { for(j = i; j < 3; j++) char_array_3[j] = '\0'; char_array_4[0] = (char_array_3[0] & 0xfc) >> 2; char_array_4[1] = ((char_array_3[0] & 0x03) << 4) + ((char_array_3[1] & 0xf0) >> 4); char_array_4[2] = ((char_array_3[1] & 0x0f) << 2) + ((char_array_3[2] & 0xc0) >> 6); char_array_4[3] = char_array_3[2] & 0x3f; for (j = 0; (j < i + 1); j++) ret += base64_chars[char_array_4[j]]; while((i++ < 3)) ret += '='; } return ret; } std::vector<BYTE> base64_decode(std::string const& encoded_string) { int in_len = encoded_string.size(); int i = 0; int j = 0; int in_ = 0; BYTE char_array_4[4], char_array_3[3]; std::vector<BYTE> ret; while (in_len-- && ( encoded_string[in_] != '=') && is_base64(encoded_string[in_])) { char_array_4[i++] = encoded_string[in_]; in_++; if (i ==4) { for (i = 0; i <4; i++) char_array_4[i] = base64_chars.find(char_array_4[i]); char_array_3[0] = (char_array_4[0] << 2) + ((char_array_4[1] & 0x30) >> 4); char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2); char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) + char_array_4[3]; for (i = 0; (i < 3); i++) ret.push_back(char_array_3[i]); i = 0; } } if (i) { for (j = i; j <4; j++) char_array_4[j] = 0; for (j = 0; j <4; j++) char_array_4[j] = base64_chars.find(char_array_4[j]); char_array_3[0] = (char_array_4[0] << 2) + ((char_array_4[1] & 0x30) >> 4); char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2); char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) + char_array_4[3]; for (j = 0; (j < i - 1); j++) ret.push_back(char_array_3[j]); } return ret; }
Here's the usage:
std::vector<BYTE> myData; ... std::string encodedData = base64_encode(&myData[0], myData.size()); std::vector<BYTE> decodedData = base64_decode(encodedData);
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