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in reply to Problem Encoding/Decoding PDF with MIME::Base64

Practically everytime I've seen someone release a module with a slurp function it has always lacked binmode (at first), and IO::All is no different. Know thy tools

update: granted you could use open IN => ":raw", OUT => ":raw"; to set default disciplines for input and output, but a good slurp function should binmode.

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Re: binmode binmoding binmode again
by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Apr 28, 2004 at 21:35 UTC

    Thanks PodMaster, that was it precisely. I rewrote the programs as follows:

    encode_base64.pl:

    #! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MIME::Base64 qw( encode_base64 );

open INFILE, '<', $ARGV[0];
binmode INFILE;
open OUTFILE, '>', $ARGV[1];
my $buf;
while ( read( INFILE, $buf, 60 * 57 ) ) {
    print OUTFILE encode_base64( $buf );
}

close OUTFILE;
close INFILE;

__END__

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    decode_base64.pl:

    #! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MIME::Base64 qw( decode_base64 );

open INFILE, '<', $ARGV[0];
open OUTFILE, '>', $ARGV[1];
binmode OUTFILE;
my $buf;
while ( $buf = <INFILE> ) {
    print OUTFILE decode_base64( $buf );
}

close OUTFILE;
close INFILE;

__END__

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    The PDF decoded correctly this time. Thanks!


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