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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require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

fac = Chilkat::CkFileAccess.new()

#  The 2nd argument specifies the encoding and may
#  be "base64", "hex", "url", or "qp".
encodedStr = fac.readBinaryToEncoded("sample.pdf","base64")
if (encodedStr == nil )
    print fac.lastErrorText() + "\n";
else
    print encodedStr + "\n";
end