NAME

Text::Netstring - Perl extension for manipulation of netstrings

SYNOPSIS

 use Text::Netstring qw(netstring_encode netstring_decode netstring_verify);

 $ns = netstring_encode($text);
 @ns = netstring_encode(@text);

 $text = netstring_decode($ns);
 @text = netstring_decode(@ns);

 $valid = netstring_verify($string);
 @valid = netstring_verify(@string);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a collection of functions to make use of netstrings in your perl programs. A netstring is a string encoding used by, at least, QMTP and QMQP.

netstring_encode()

TBA

netstring_decode()

TBA

netstring_verify()

TBA

NOTES

The format of a netstring is described in http://cr.yp.to/proto/qmtp.txt

AUTHOR

James Raftery <james@now.ie>.