NAME
    MIME::Base64::Perl - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings

SYNOPSIS
     use MIME::Base64::Perl;

     $encoded = encode_base64('Aladdin:open sesame');
     $decoded = decode_base64($encoded);

DESCRIPTION
    This module provide the same interface as "MIME::Base64", but these
    functions are implemented in pure perl.

    This module provides functions to encode and decode strings into and
    from the base64 encoding specified in RFC 2045 - *MIME (Multipurpose
    Internet Mail Extensions)*. The base64 encoding is designed to represent
    arbitrary sequences of octets in a form that need not be humanly
    readable. A 65-character subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used,
    enabling 6 bits to be represented per printable character.

    The following functions are provided:

    encode_base64($str)
    encode_base64($str, $eol);
        Encode data by calling the encode_base64() function. The first
        argument is the string to encode. The second argument is the
        line-ending sequence to use. It is optional and defaults to "\n".
        The returned encoded string is broken into lines of no more than 76
        characters each and it will end with $eol unless it is empty. Pass
        an empty string as second argument if you do not want the encoded
        string to be broken into lines.

    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.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 1995-1999, 2001-2004 Gisle Aas.

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

    Distantly based on LWP::Base64 written by Martijn Koster
    <m.koster@nexor.co.uk> and Joerg Reichelt <j.reichelt@nexor.co.uk> and
    code posted to comp.lang.perl <3pd2lp$6gf@wsinti07.win.tue.nl> by Hans
    Mulder <hansm@wsinti07.win.tue.nl>

SEE ALSO
    MIME::Base64, MIME::QuotedPrint::Perl

