NAME

Encode::Base58 - Base58 encodings (for Flickr short URI)

SYNOPSIS

use Encode::Base58;

my $short  = encode_base58($number);
my $number = decode_base58($short);

DESCRIPTION

Encode::Base58 is a base58 encoder/decoder implementation in Perl. Base58 encoding is used in shortening ID numbers into a short string for Flickr's short URL (flic.kr).

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

LICENSE

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

SEE ALSO

http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157616713786392/

http://gist.github.com/101753 (in Ruby)

http://gist.github.com/101674 (in Objective-C and unit tests)