Dear Perl Monks, I am taking in a string of a mixture of Base64 and normal characters. I'm not entirely sure how to decode it under Perl. An example of an encoded string would be

Georgia

or

Toni

The problem is that these strings will decode to a name, but some of the characters are randomly not encoded into base64. How would I go about decoding the string, and leave the non base64 characters alone? I will be taking in random names, so the length, and which characters are encoded will vary.

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