base64 & '='

[Dar Scott]

On May 29, 2006, at 6:54 AM, sims wrote:

> At 1:47 PM +0200 5/29/06, sims wrote:
>> iow - does it make any difference if there is 1 or 2 equal signs  
>> at the end?
>> With strings I've tested here it doesn't seem to make a difference.
>
> Never-mind... seems to be some divisible by 4 'thang'...I'm going
> to try another approach to this small puzzle.

If you need to get rid of one character from the set of characters,  
you might consider the line end.  The line end is part of the  
standard, but the Rev decode does not need it.

Dar