How to handle special characters in a string

Question

I have a php script creating an encoded value, for example:

m>^æ–S[J¯vÖ_ÕÚuÍÔ'´äœÈ‘ ®@M©t²#÷[Éå¹UçfU5T°äÙ"©"ˆÇVÝ] [’e™a«Ã°7#dÉJ>

Then I need to decode this in the vb.net application. The problem is that the value above can have any characters. And VB.net cannot handle this:

dim strCryptedString As String = 'm>^æ–S[J¯vÖ_ÕÚuÍÔ'´äœÈ‘ ®@M©t²#÷[Éå¹UçfU5T°äÙ"©"ˆÇVÝ] [’e™a«Ã°7#dÉJ>"

So, any suggestions on how to handle this value?

Answer 1

Try base64encode and base64decode. That could be all you need!

Answer 2

If you really need this to be written in the source code of VB.net, you can try base64:

dim strCryptedString As String = Base64Decode('bT5ew6bigJNTW0rCr3bDll/DlcOadcONw5QnwrTDpMWTw4jigJggwq5ATcKpdMKyI8O3W8OJw6XCuVXDp2ZVNVTCsMOkw5nigJzCqeKAncuGw4dWw51dIFvigJll4oSiYcKPwqvDg8KwNyNkw4lKPg==');

I am not sure which libraries have real names.

Answer 3

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