MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
# load this library
load_bytecode 'MIME/Base64.pbc'
MIME::Base64 is inspired by the Perl5 module MIME::Base64.
This module defines the following subroutines:
encode_base64( str )Encode data by calling the encode_base64() function. The first argument is the string to encode. The returned encoded string is broken into lines of no more than 76 characters each.
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 65-character base64 subset is silently ignored. Characters occurring after a '=' padding character are never decoded.
If the length of the string to decode, after ignoring non-base64 chars, is not a multiple of 4 or if padding occurs too early, then a warning is generated if perl is running under -w.
http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/artikel/javascript/utf8b64/base64.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
Written and maintained by Bernhard Schmalhofer, Bernhard dot Schmalhofer at gmx dot de, based on the Perl 5 Module MIME::Base64 by Gisle Aas and on the article on de.selfhtml.org.
Copyright (C) 2006-2008, Parrot Foundation.
