Code Snippet
b='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
function encode(data)
return ((data:gsub('.', function(x)
local r,b='',x:byte()
for i=8,1,-1 do r=r..(b%2^i-b%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
return r;
end)..'0000'):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
if (#x < 6) then return '' end
local c=0
for i=1,6 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(6-i) or 0) end
return b:sub(c+1,c+1)
end)..({ '', '==', '=' })[#data%3+1])
end
function decode(data)
data = string.gsub(data, '[^'..b..'=]', '')
return (data:gsub('.', function(x)
if (x == '=') then return '' end
local r,f='',(b:find(x)-1)
for i=6,1,-1 do r=r..(f%2^i-f%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
return r;
end):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
if (#x ~= 8) then return '' end
local c=0
for i=1,8 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(8-i) or 0) end
return string.char(c)
end))
end
Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(encode("Hello world"))
SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=
> print(decode("SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ="))
Hello world
>
References
- http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour