This is a conversion of Synesis Software Base-64 C system to GLBasic. The general rule is to choose a set of 64 characters that is both part of a subset common to most encodings, and also printable. This combination leaves the data unlikely to be modified in transit through systems, such as email, which were traditionally not 8-bit clean.
So, the array of integers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 comes out as :
AQAAAAIAAAADAAAABAAAAAUA
AAAGAAAABwAAAAgAAAAJAAAA
CgAAAA==
or
AQAAAAIAAAADAAAABAAAAAUAAAAGAAAABwAAAAgAAAAJAAAACgAAAA==
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Very nice. The V8 will also come with ENCRYPT$() and DECRYPT$() that use a 128 bit encryption algorithm.
That'll be useful!
That's funny, I'm sure I wrote a Base 64 encode/decode library purely in GLBasic a couple of years ago but the searchfunction on the boards can't find it. Actually it won't even find this post.
Anyway, see my version here:
http://gamecorner.110mb.com/index.php?page=base64-encode-decode-library
It has file upload to a PHP-script with SQL-database backup, RLE encoding, you can use both a string or an array to encode and you can encode as normal or for URL (different rules).
Obviously these forums are indexed for some reason. However at least your base 64 stuff is on your website.