MIME::QuotedPrint(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide MIME::QuotedPrint(3pm)
NAME
MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable 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. Non-printable 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($str)
This function will return an encoded version of the string given as argument.
Note that encode_qp() does not change newlines "
" to the CRLF sequence even though this might be considered the right thing to do
(RFC 2045 (Q-P Rule #4)).
decode_qp($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.
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-01 MIME::QuotedPrint(3pm)