Visual FoxPro

Get Contents of File as Base64

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Demonstrates how to read the contents of a file and convert to a base64 string. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loBd

lnSuccess = 0

loBd = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')

lnSuccess = loBd.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? "Failed to load file."
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? loBd.GetEncoded("base64")

* If you want mult-line base64:
? "--"
? loBd.GetEncoded("base64_mime")

* If you want hex..
? "--"
? loBd.GetEncoded("hex")

* etc.

RELEASE loBd