NAME
Convert::UU, uuencode, uudecode - Perl module for uuencode and uudecode
SYNOPSIS
use Convert::UU qw(uudecode uuencode);
$encoded_string = uuencode($string,[$filename],[$mode]);
($string,$filename,$mode) = uudecode($string);
$string = uudecode($string); # in scalar context
DESCRIPTION
* uuencode
uuencode() takes as the first argument a string that is to be
uuencoded. Note, that it is the string that is encoded, not a
filename. Alternatively a filehandle may be passed that must be
opened for reading. It returns the uuencoded string including
"begin" and "end". Second and third argument are optional and
specify filename and mode. If unspecified these default to
"uuencode.uu" and 644.
* uudecode
uudecode() takes a string as argument which will be uudecoded. If
the argument is a filehandle this handle will be read instead. If it
is a reference to an ARRAY, the elements are treated like lines that
form a string. Leading and trailing garbage will be ignored. The
function returns the uudecoded string for the first begin/end pair.
In array context it returns an array whose first element is the
uudecoded string, the second is the filename and the third is the
mode.
EXPORT
Both uudecode and uuencode are in @EXPORT_OK.
AUTHOR
Andreas Koenig "
[email protected]". With code integrated that was posted to
USENET from Hans Mulder and Randal L. Schwartz.
SEE ALSO
puuencode(1), puudecode(1) for examples of how to use this module.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-2003 Andreas Koenig.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
Based on code posted to comp.lang.perl by Hans Mulder and Randal L.
Schwartz.
