Decodes a Base64 encoded string to plain text.
This function takes the Base64 String and decodes using UTF-8 (unless specified otherwise).
When an Encoding argument is specified the value must be a name from Microsoft - Encoding Class list (for example Windows-1252).
SppBase64EncodeUrlSafe([Base64 String], [Encoding])
Where:
Base64 String is the Base64 encoded string to decode.
Encoding is the name of the encoding to use for decoding the string.
UTF-8 encoding will be used by default. In order to successfully decode the string to plain text, the same character set used when the string was encoded should be specified.
| Rule | Result | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| SppDecodeBase64String("bGl0dGxlIGJyb3duIGZveA==") | little brown fox | The Base64 string is decoded using UTF-8 encoding. |
| SppDecodeBase64String("bGl0dGxlIGJyb3duIGZveA==", "Windows-1252") | little brown fox | The Base64 string is decoded using Windows-1252 encoding. |
The function Base64Encode converts a string to Base64Encode.
See Microsoft - Encoding Class for a list of supported encodings.