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[Julia Smith]

In a similar vein, I want to take a base64 encoded string and dump the product of a decode into a destination byte array. However, I don't know the size of the decoded data before hand. How do I get this done?

[Neville Franks]

Hi Julia,

Thursday, March 20, 2003, 10:31:37 AM, you wrote:

JS> In a similar vein, I want to take a base64 encoded string and dump the product of a decode into a destination byte array. However, I don't know the size of the decoded data before hand. How do I
JS> get this done?

Hmm, 8 x length of the base64 string, or something like that. :-)

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