Read and base64 encode a binary file

Question

I\'m trying to read a binary file from the filesystem and then base64 encode it in JavaScript. I\'m using the FileReader API to read the data and the base64 encoder found h

Answer 1

Treat the binary as arraybuffer, this is independent from any character encoding. Your blue-square (.jpg) has 361 native bytes, means octets from 0..255 (decimal) and they are no characters!

It means: Use ArrayBuffer for encoding this to Base64 with well known base64-algorithm.

With Perl back to origin, shows the blue-square as above:

my $fh = IO::File->new;
$fh->open("d:/tmp/x.jpg", O_BINARY|O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC) or die $!;

$fh->print(decode_base64("/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRofHh0aHBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBD
AQkJCQwLDBgNDRgyIRwhMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCABkAGQDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAFQABAQAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAf/xAAUEAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/8QAFgEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUH/8QAFBEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/aAAwDAQACEQMR
AD8AjgDcUwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB//2Q==
"));


$fh->close;