quotedprint(3)
NAME
MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-print
able strings
SYNOPSIS
use MIME::QuotedPrint; $encoded = encode_qp($decoded); $decoded = decode_qp($encoded);
DESCRIPTION
This module provides functions to encode and decode
strings into the Quoted-Printable encoding specified in
RFC 2045 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
The Quoted-Printable encoding is intended to represent
data that largely consists of bytes that correspond to
printable characters in the ASCII character set. Nonprintable characters (as defined by english americans) are
represented by a triplet consisting of the character "="
followed by two hexadecimal digits.
The following functions are provided:
- encode_qp($str)
- This function will return an encoded version of the
string given as argument. - Note that encode_qp() does not change newlines "0 to
the CRLF sequence even though this might be considered
the right thing to do (RFC 2045 (Q-P Rule #4)). - decode_qp($str);
- This function will return the plain text version of
the string given as argument. - If you prefer not to import these routines into your
namespace you can call them as:
use MIME::QuotedPrint ();
$encoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::encode($decoded);
$decoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::decode($encoded);
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1995-1997 Gisle Aas.
- This library is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.