{"id":31508,"date":"2018-04-21T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/base64encode\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T00:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:58:39","slug":"base64encode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/base64encode\/","title":{"rendered":"Base64Encode"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Base64Encode<\/h2>\n<p>This function Base64 encodes a string.<\/p>\n<h3>Arguments<\/h3>\n<p><code>Base64Encode(1,2)<\/code><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center\">Ordinal<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Type<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Required<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">True<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String value to encode<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">False<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">Optional .NET character-encoding type to utilize in encoding.  Valid values are <code>ASCII<\/code>, <code>UTF-7<\/code>, <code>UTF-8<\/code>, <code>UTF-16<\/code>, and <code>UTF-32<\/code>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Example<\/h3>\n<pre><code>%%[\n\nvar @str\nvar @enc\nvar @encASCII\nvar @encUTF7\nvar @encUTF8\nvar @encUTF16\nvar @encUTF32\n\nset @str = \"doug@limedash.com\"\n\nset @enc = Base64Encode(@str)\nset @encASCII = Base64Encode(@str, \"ASCII\")\nset @encUTF7 = Base64Encode(@str, \"UTF-7\")\nset @encUTF8 = Base64Encode(@str, \"UTF-8\")\nset @encUTF16 = Base64Encode(@str, \"UTF-16\")\nset @encUTF32 = Base64Encode(@str, \"UTF-32\")\n\n]%%\nstr: %%=v(@str)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;enc: %%=v(@enc)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;encASCII: %%=v(@encASCII)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;encUTF7: %%=v(@encUTF7)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;encUTF8: %%=v(@encUTF8)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;encUTF16: %%=v(@encUTF16)=%%\n&lt;br&gt;encUTF32: %%=v(@encUTF32)=%%<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>Output<\/h4>\n<pre><code>str: doug@limedash.com\nenc: ZG91Z0BsaW1lZGFzaC5jb20=\nencASCII: ZG91Z0BsaW1lZGFzaC5jb20=\nencUTF7: ZG91ZytBRUEtbGltZWRhc2guY29t\nencUTF8: ZG91Z0BsaW1lZGFzaC5jb20=\nencUTF16: ZABvAHUAZwBAAGwAaQBtAGUAZABhAHMAaAAuAGMAbwBtAA==\nencUTF32: ZAAAAG8AAAB1AAAAZwAAAEAAAABsAAAAaQAAAG0AAABlAAAAZAAAAGEAAABzAAAAaAAAAC4AAABjAAAAbwAAAG0AAAA=<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Base64Encode This function Base64 encodes a string. 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