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manveru / base64.nix
Created September 6, 2023 03:19
Encode to base 64 in pure Nix
{lib, ...}: {
toBase64 = text: let
inherit (lib) sublist mod stringToCharacters concatMapStrings;
inherit (lib.strings) charToInt;
inherit (builtins) substring foldl' genList elemAt length concatStringsSep stringLength;
lookup = stringToCharacters "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
sliceN = size: list: n: sublist (n * size) size list;
pows = [(64 * 64 * 64) (64 * 64) 64 1];
intSextets = i: map (j: mod (i / j) 64) pows;
compose = f: g: x: f (g x);