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Name: BASE64DECODE

Section: String Operators

Synopsis:

`<base64decode STRING>`

Description:

Performs the translation operation commonly known as Base64 Decoding on STRING, and returns the results of that decoding.

Base64 encoding is a common transfer encoding for binary data and for Basic Authorization values -- this function can be used to turn such strings into their original, pre-encoded state.

    <set-var the-data = "YmZveDpmcm9ibml0eg==">
    <base64decode <get-var the-data>>

produces:

    bfox:frobnitz

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