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robinresilient
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Base64 encoding for GUID

Hi i am looking for a way to encode a guid into base64

 

663e6ca3-31cd-4886-a90a-21a6ed8a => 

Zj5sozHNSIapCiGm7YqJbQ==

 

Tool: GUID Converter - Tool Slick

 

In code this would look like this:

$guid = "663e6ca3-31cd-4886-a90a-21a6ed8a"
$base64 = [system.convert]::ToBase64String(([GUID]($guid)).ToByteArray())
$base64
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mahoneypat
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Please see if the approach used in this article works for you.

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robinresilient
New Member

I tried the same - problem is it doesnt use the GUID as HEX value but just converts the string. Which result do you get.

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

Not sure where you got your result from but here's a Power Query version.

 

let
Source = Table.FromRows({{"663e6ca3-31cd-4886-a90a-21a6ed8a"}},{"GUID"}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Base64", each Binary.ToText(Text.ToBinary([GUID],BinaryEncoding.Base64)))
in
#"Added Custom"

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