What is the advantage of using Base64 encoding?

Question

What is the advantage of using Base64 encode?

I would like to understand it better. Do I really need it? Can\'t I simply use pure strings?

I heard that the e

Answer 1

Convert BLOB data to string and back...

Answer 2

The primary use case of base64 encoding is when you want to store or transfer data with a restricted set of characters; i.e. when you can't pass an arbitrary value in each byte.