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title: "decode:base64 — Decode MIME Base64"
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# decode:base64 — Decode MIME Base64

DECODE:BASE64 decodes a value according to RFC 2045 by converting printable characters back to arbitrary byte sequences.

MIME Base64 is designed to make binary data survive transport through transport layers that are not 8-bit clean. MIME Base64-encoded data is about 33 percent larger than the unencoded data.

DECODE:BASE64 is the complement of the ENCODE:BASE64 operation.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<output>
	<decode:base64>TXkgbmFtZSBpcyBpWE1MIQ==</decode:base64>
</output>

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```