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Re: base64 decoding more tolerant to chars
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
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Re: base64 decoding more tolerant to chars |
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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:53:27 +0100 |
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On 01/30/2012 10:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
> Have you considered pre-filtering the data you pass to the base64-decoding
> function? We considered what you're proposing when adding the
> --ignore-garbage option to the command-line base64 program:
Hello,
Could also be done, but since the code to remove newlines was there, I
thought it is simpler to augment it to remove common garbage.
regards,
Nikos