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Encoding string to Base64 / UTF8
Sometimes you need to convert strings to Base64, for example in security components. The function below does this:
public string stringToBase64(string s) { try { byte[] bytes = new byte[s.Length]; bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s); return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes); } catch (Exception e) { throw new Exception("stringToBase64 error: " + e.Message); } }
Author Dave Howard
I have been involved in IT development for the last 10 years - a lot of it around desktop applications and telecoms.
Comments
Adam Liechty
said:
Thanks for the post. But the following line is unnecessary:
--> byte[] bytes = new byte[s.Length];
"bytes" gets completely overwritten by the next line.
theplague
said:
this is not utf-8
