Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation.
Example 1: Encode a String to Base64 Using btoa()
// program to encode a string to Base64
// defining the string
const str = "Learning JavaScript";
// encoding the string
const result = window.btoa(str);
console.log(result);
// decoding the string
const result1 = window.atob(result);
console.log(result1);
Output
TGVhcm5pbmcgSmF2YVNjcmlwdA== Learning JavaScript
In the above example, the btoa() method is used to convert the string to Base64.
The atob() method is used to convert the Base64 to a string.
Example 2: Encode a String to Base64 Using Base64 Object
// program to encode a string to Base64
// create Base64 Object
const Base64 = {
// private property
_keyStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",
// public method for encoding
encode : function (input) {
let output = "";
let chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
let i = 0;
input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);
while (i < input.length) {
chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
enc4 = chr3 & 63;
if (isNaN(chr2)) {
enc3 = enc4 = 64;
} else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
enc4 = 64;
}
output = output +
Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc4);
}
return output;
},
// public method for decoding
decode : function (input) {
let output = "";
let chr1, chr2, chr3;
let enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
let i = 0;
input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g, "");
while (i < input.length) {
enc1 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
enc2 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
enc3 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
enc4 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;
output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);
if (enc3 != 64) {
output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
}
if (enc4 != 64) {
output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
}
}
output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);
return output;
},
// private method for UTF-8 encoding
_utf8_encode : function (string) {
string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
let utftext = "";
for (let n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
let c = string.charCodeAt(n);
if (c < 128) {
utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
}
else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
}
else {
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
}
}
return utftext;
},
// private method for UTF-8 decoding
_utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
let string = "";
let i = 0;
let c = c1 = c2 = 0;
while ( i < utftext.length ) {
c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
if (c < 128) {
string += String.fromCharCode(c);
i++;
}
else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
i += 2;
}
else {
c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
i += 3;
}
}
return string;
}
}
// define the string
const string = 'Learning JavaScript';
// encode the String
const encodedString = Base64.encode(string);
console.log(encodedString);
// decode the String
const decodedString = Base64.decode(encodedString);
console.log(decodedString);
Output
TGVhcm5pbmcgSmF2YVNjcmlwdA== Learning JavaScript.
The encode() method encodes a string to Base64. The decode() method decodes the Base64 to a string.
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