Systems-Related String Operations
The Wolfram Language includes flexible functions for conveniently handling strings related to systems-level operations.
Hash — find a hash code for a string using a variety of schemes
Compress — compress a string
BaseDecode — convert a Base64 string to a byte array
Cryptography
Encrypt, Decrypt — encrypt, decrypt using symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
StringFormat — determine the import format for a string
Operations on File Names »
FileNameSplit ▪ FileNameTake ▪ FileBaseName ▪ ExpandFileName ▪ ...
Operations on URLs »
URLEncode ▪ URLDecode ▪ URLBuild ▪ URLParse ▪ ...
Importing & Exporting »
Import, Export — import, export in many systems-related formats
"Base64" ▪ "GZIP" ▪ "ApacheLog" ▪ "XML" ▪ ...
ImportString ▪ ExportString ▪ BinaryRead ▪ BinaryWrite
Character Encodings »
$CharacterEncoding — default character encoding
StringToByteArray — convert a string to UTF-8 or other encodings
ByteArrayToString — convert UTF-8 or other binary data to a string