Base64.pm

NAME

encode_base64 - Encode string using base64 encoding

decode_base64 - Decode base64 string

SYNOPSIS

use MIME::Base64; $encoded = encode_base64('Aladdin:open sesame'); $decoded = decode_base64($encoded);

This module provides functions to encode and decode strings into the Base64 encoding specified in RFC 2045 - IThe following functions are provided:

encode_base64($str, [$eol]): Encode data by calling the encode_base64() function. The first argument is the string to encode. The second argument is the line ending sequence to use (it is optional and defaults to ``\n''). The returned encoded string is broken into lines of no more than 76 characters each and it will end with $eol unless it is empty. Pass an empty string as second argument if you do not want the encoded string broken into lines.
decode_base64($str): Decode a base64 string by calling the decode_base64() function. This function takes a single argument which is the string to decode and returns the decoded data. Any character not part of the legal base64 chars is ignored. The decode_base64() function might croak if the sequence to decode ends prematurely.

If you prefer not to import these routines into your namespace you can.call them as:

use MIME::Base64 (); $encoded = MIME::Base64::encode($decoded); $decoded = MIME::Base64::decode($encoded);

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Distantly based on LWP::Base64 written by Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk> and Joerg Reichelt <j.reichelt@nexor.co.uk> and code posted to comp.lang.perl <3pd2lp$6gf@wsinti07.win.tue.nl> by Hans Mulder <hansm@wsinti07.win.tue.nl>