anyone here got a function to find is a string is base64 encoded?

[Mark Brownell]

on 7/24/04 12:21 PM, Andre Garzia at soapdog at mac.com wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am trying to determine if a string is base64 encoded, I don't know in
> advance if it will be or not, but I need to find out so that I can
> decode as needed. Any hint?
> 
> cheers
> andre

Hi Andre,

Is there any chance that a known word or number is present in the string?
You can just go ahead and use base64Decode on it to see if offSet() finds
that known word or number before deciding to use the test decode or not.

Mark