[OT] We're hiring

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 11:42:12 EDT 2012


Interestingly, the base64encode function of livecode does add the padding
to the correct length.

put the base64encode of "support at economy-x-talk.com"

c3VwcG9ydEBlY29ub215LXgtdGFsay5jb20=

Apparently the decode function pads the data to the correct length before
decoding so it works with or without the trailing =.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, -=>JB<=- <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> The site below returns it properly with .com at the end
> of the line.
>
> http://www.base64decode.org/
>
> -=>JB<=-
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
> > You are right about that, but there is very little in your job
> application that is to do with LiveCode, and many applicants will use more
> regular decoding tools. It could be a bug, or hack, in LiveCOde that allows
> it to work ok.
> >
> > Try this page with your existing code:
> >
> > http://opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/
> >
> > or try TextMate. That page shows an error, TextMate converts it ok
> without that last two characters.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 16, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps RunRev changed something in the decoding algorithm in the last
> version of LiveCode? In all the version of Revolution and LiveCode that I
> have, it doesn't matter whether you add = or == or even === or nothing.
> >
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