Programming ColdFusion

Name

ToBinary — New as of ColdFusion 4.5

Synopsis

ToBinary(value)

Converts a base64-encoded string to its binary form. The following example take a base64-encoded string (in this case a GIF image of the letter R), converts it to a binary object using ToBinary( ), writes the object out to a file, and then displays it using CFCONTENT:

<CFSET MyBase64="R0lGODlhGQAZAPcAAP////v7+/Pz8+7u7uLi4t3d3dnZ2dXV1cTExLe3t6qqqp6e npGRkYmJiYiIiH9/f3t7e25ubmZmZllZWVZWVlFRUURERDw8PDQ0NC8vLyIiIhUVFREREQwMDAQEBAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAACwAAAAAGQAZAEcIiwABCBxIsKDBgwQffPigAIHDBh4+YEBoUOGHAgMlLHRAsaPHjyApWlxI8sMEA SFTqlwpkIGGlzAxUECQ0iLGgRc+cAhpE4CBDR86HKi58KbABQsrsFzKtKlTkCNLfvCQgGdRghUWWv0Q4c ...