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Powershell: Encode and decode Base64 strings

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Hi,

short post today. How to en- and decode base64 strings.

Encode a string

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[string]$sStringToEncode="My string to encode"
$sEncodedString=[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($sStringToEncode))
write-host "Encoded String:" $sEncodedString

And decoding back

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$sDecodedString=[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($sEncodedString))
write-host "Encoded String:" $sDecodedString

Michael

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