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Objective-C

Get Contents of File as Base64

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Demonstrates how to read the contents of a file and convert to a base64 string.

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Objective-C
#import <CkoBinData.h>

BOOL success = NO;

CkoBinData *bd = [[CkoBinData alloc] init];

success = [bd LoadFile: @"qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg"];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Failed to load file.");
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",[bd GetEncoded: @"base64"]);

//  If you want mult-line base64:
NSLog(@"%@",@"--");
NSLog(@"%@",[bd GetEncoded: @"base64_mime"]);

//  If you want hex..
NSLog(@"%@",@"--");
NSLog(@"%@",[bd GetEncoded: @"hex"]);

//  etc..