<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The reason is that the text is wrong, <div>it misses a tailing '=' character to come to the correct size. The encoded text is expected to be a multiple of 4 bytes in size if your encoded text is 'too short' for that it is supposed to be filled wiht '=' try base64:encode("a") for example :)<div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2011, at 16:44, Max Bourinov wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>Does anybody knows why base64:decode fails on strings like this:</div><div><br></div><div>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</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can easily decode it with online tool like this: <a href="http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp">http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp</a></div><div><br></div><div>
But lovely Erlang says:</div><div><br></div><div><div>** exception error: no function clause matching base64:decode("Jye",</div><div> [133,177,157,189,201,165,209,161,180,136,232,137,33,53,5,12,</div>
<div> 181,77,33,4,200,212,216,136,176,137,141|...])</div><div> in function base64:decode/1</div></div><div><br></div><div>Seems something wrong with pattern matching or what could it be? And most interesting question - how to find a proper work around?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div>Best regards,</div><div>Max</div><br><br>
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