Decoding Base64

[AeroMcFly]

First of all, I'm very new to Love2D. Very novice programmer. Currently using Love2D 0.8.0

I was just wondering, once you save a file encoded in Base64, how do you load that back and decode it?

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love.filesystem.setIdentity("DataTest")

newData = love.filesystem.newFileData("TEST","test.txt","base64")
love.filesystem.write("test.txt",newData)

local loaded = love.filesystem.read("test.txt") -- Problem

Marked "problem," it seems to not decode it back to 'TEST.' Does anyone know how to do this?

[Robin]

Firstly, it doesn't work like you think it works. love.filesystem.newFileData decodes the first argument using Base64 if you specify it. So "TEST" becomes "LD�" in plain text. AFAIK, LÖVE provides no method to encode to Base64.

Secondly, I'm curious, why do you want to use Base64?

[miko]

I was just wondering, once you save a file encoded in Base64, how do you load that back and decode it?

Googling for "lua base64" yields this, which you can use in your project.

[vrld]

There's also luasocket.mime.b64 and luasocket.mime.unb64.

[AeroMcFly]

Thanks guys