Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; public class Main { private static byte[] base64DecodeChars = new byte[] { -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 62, -1, -1, -1, 63, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 }; public static byte[] decode(String str) { try { return decodePrivate(str); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return new byte[] {}; } private static byte[] decodePrivate(String str) throws UnsupportedEncodingException { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); byte[] data = null; data = str.getBytes("US-ASCII"); int len = data.length; int i = 0; int b1, b2, b3, b4; while (i < len) { do { b1 = base64DecodeChars[data[i++]]; } while (i < len && b1 == -1); if (b1 == -1) break; do { b2 = base64DecodeChars[data[i++]]; } while (i < len && b2 == -1); if (b2 == -1) break; sb.append((char) ((b1 << 2) | ((b2 & 0x30) >>> 4))); do { b3 = data[i++]; if (b3 == 61) return sb.toString().getBytes("iso8859-1"); b3 = base64DecodeChars[b3]; } while (i < len && b3 == -1); if (b3 == -1) break; sb.append((char) (((b2 & 0x0f) << 4) | ((b3 & 0x3c) >>> 2))); do { b4 = data[i++]; if (b4 == 61) return sb.toString().getBytes("iso8859-1"); b4 = base64DecodeChars[b4]; } while (i < len && b4 == -1); if (b4 == -1) break; sb.append((char) (((b3 & 0x03) << 6) | b4)); } return sb.toString().getBytes("iso8859-1"); } }