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NAME

Convert::Ascii85 - Encoding and decoding of ascii85/base85 strings

SYNOPSIS

use Convert::Ascii85;

my $encoded = Convert::Ascii85::encode($data);
my $decoded = Convert::Ascii85::decode($encoded);

use Convert::Ascii85 qw(ascii85_encode ascii85_decode);

my $encoded = ascii85_encode($data);
my $decoded = ascii85_decode($encoded);

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the Ascii85 (also known as Base85) algorithm for encoding binary data as text. This is done by interpreting each group of four bytes as a 32-bit integer, which is then converted to a five-digit base-85 representation using the digits from ASCII 33 (!) to 117 (u).

This is similar to MIME::Base64 but more space efficient: The overhead is only 1/4 of the original data (as opposed to 1/3 for Base64).

FUNCTIONS

Convert::Ascii85::encode DATA
Convert::Ascii85::encode DATA, OPTIONS

Converts the bytes in DATA to Ascii85 and returns the resulting text string. OPTIONS is a hash reference in which the following keys may be set:

compress_zero => 0

By default, four-byte chunks of null bytes ("\0\0\0\0") are converted to 'z' instead of '!!!!!'. This can be avoided by passing a false value for compress_zero in OPTIONS.

compress_space => 1

By default, four-byte chunks of spaces (' ') are converted to '+<VdL'. If you pass a true value for compress_space in OPTIONS, they will be converted to 'y' instead.

This function may be exported as ascii85_encode into the caller's namespace.

Convert::Ascii85::decode TEXT

Converts the Ascii85-encoded TEXT back to bytes and returns the resulting byte string. Spaces and linebreaks in TEXT are ignored.

This function may be exported as ascii85_decode into the caller's namespace.

SEE ALSO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85, MIME::Base64

AUTHOR

Lukas Mai, <l.mai at web.de>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-convert-ascii85 at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Convert-Ascii85. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Convert::Ascii85

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 Lukas Mai.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.