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<h2><a href="./">Go by Example</a>: Base64 Encoding</h2>
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<p>Go provides built-in support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64">base64
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encoding/decoding</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://play.golang.org/p/t6rFm2x4Yr"><img title="Run code" src="play.png" class="run" /></a>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="nx">main</span>
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<p>This syntax imports the <code>encoding/base64</code> package with
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the <code>b64</code> name instead of the default <code>base64</code>. It’ll
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save us some space below.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nx">b64</span> <span class="s">"encoding/base64"</span>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="s">"fmt"</span>
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</pre></div>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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<p>Here’s the <code>string</code> we’ll encode/decode.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">data</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="s">"abc123!?$*&()'-=@~"</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>Go supports both standard and URL-compatible
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base64. Here’s how to encode using the standard
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encoder. The encoder requires a <code>[]byte</code> so we
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cast our <code>string</code> to that type.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">sEnc</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">b64</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">StdEncoding</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">EncodeToString</span><span class="p">([]</span><span class="nb">byte</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">sEnc</span><span class="p">)</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>Decoding may return an error, which you can check
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if you don’t already know the input to be
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well-formed.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">sDec</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">_</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">b64</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">StdEncoding</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DecodeString</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">sEnc</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">sDec</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">()</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>This encodes/decodes using a URL-compatible base64
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format.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">uEnc</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">b64</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">URLEncoding</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">EncodeToString</span><span class="p">([]</span><span class="nb">byte</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">uEnc</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="nx">uDec</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">_</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">b64</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">URLEncoding</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DecodeString</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">uEnc</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">uDec</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>The string encodes to slightly different values with the
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standard and URL base64 encoders (trailing <code>+</code> vs <code>-</code>)
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but they both decode to the original string as desired.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> go run base64-encoding.go
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<span class="go">YWJjMTIzIT8kKiYoKSctPUB+</span>
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<span class="go">abc123!?$*&()'-=@~</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="go">YWJjMTIzIT8kKiYoKSctPUB-</span>
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<span class="go">abc123!?$*&()'-=@~</span>
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