Load Binary File to an Encoded String

Demonstrates how to load a binary file directly into a string encoded as base64, hex, URL, quoted-printable, etc.

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use chilkat();

$fac = new chilkat::CkFileAccess();

#  The 2nd argument specifies the encoding and may
#  be "base64", "hex", "url", or "qp".
$encodedStr = $fac->readBinaryToEncoded("sample.pdf","base64");
if ($encodedStr eq null ) {
    print $fac->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print $encodedStr . "\r\n";
}