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NAME

IOLayer::Base64 - PerlIO layer for base64 (MIME) encoded strings

SYNOPSIS

use IOLayer::Base64;

open( my $in,'<Via(IOLayer::Base64)','file.mime' )
 or die "Can't open file.mime for reading: $!\n";

open( my $out,'>Via(IOLayer::Base64)','file.mime' )
 or die "Can't open file.mime for writing: $!\n";

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a PerlIO layer that works on files encoded in the Base64 format (as described in RFC 2045). It will decode from base64 format while reading from a handle, and it will encode to base64 while writing to a handle.

CAVEAT

The current implementation slurps the whole contents of a handle into memory before doing any encoding or decoding. This may change in the future when I finally figured out how READ and WRITE are supposed to work on incompletely processed buffers.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2002 Elizabeth Mattijsen.

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