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    <title>base64</title>
    <prepared>Ingela Anderton Andin</prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date>2007-02-22</date>
    <rev></rev>
    <file>base64.sgml</file>
  </header>
  <module>base64</module>
  <modulesummary>Implements base 64 encode and decode, see RFC2045.</modulesummary>
  <description>
    <p>Implements base 64 encode and decode, see RFC2045. </p>
  </description>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>encode(Data) -> Base64 </name>
      <name>encode_to_string(Data) -> Base64String</name>
      <fsummary>Encodes data into base64. </fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Data = string() | binary()</v>
        <v>Base64 = binary()</v>
        <v>Base64String = string()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Encodes a plain ASCII string into base64. The result will
          be 33% larger than the data.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>decode(Base64) -> Data</name>
      <name>decode_to_string(Base64) -> DataString</name>
      <name>mime_decode(Base64) -> Data</name>
      <name>mime_decode_to_string(Base64) -> DataString</name>
      <fsummary>Decodes a base64 encoded string to data. </fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Base64 = string() | binary()</v>
        <v>Data = binary()</v>
        <v>DataString = string()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Decodes a base64 encoded string to plain ASCII. See RFC4648.
          <c>mime_decode/1</c> and <c>mime_decode_to_string/1</c>
          strips away illegal characters, while <c>decode/1</c> and
          <c>decode_to_string/1</c> only strips away whitespace characters.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>
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