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✨ PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint — it's giving "quoted-printable but make it a layer" 💅

Hey bestie 🫶 so this page lives in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide under the name PerlIO...dPrint(3perl) (yes the title got squished, the terminal is a menace like that), and it's about a lil PerlIO layer that handles quoted-printable encoding. Let me put you on.

🌸 NAME 🌸

PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint — a PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings. That's it, that's the whole job. Iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint;

open(my $in, '<:via(QuotedPrint)', 'file.qp') or
    die "Can't open file.qp for reading: $!\n";

open(my $out, '>:via(QuotedPrint)', 'file.qp') or
    die "Can't open file.qp for writing: $!\n";

okay so like — you drop the layer into your open() mode string and the vibes handle themselves. Reading? Decoded for you. Writing? Encoded for you. No manual labor. Periodt.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This module implements a PerlIO layer that works on files encoded in the quoted-printable format.

  • When you're reading from a handle — it decodes from quoted-printable. 🔓
  • When you're writing to a handle — it encodes as quoted-printable. 🔒

That's the whole personality. It's a layer, it sits on your handle, it transforms the bytes as they pass through. Lowkey elegant ngl.

🎀 EXPORTS 🎀

None.

Not a single thing. It exports nothing. It's humble like that 🙈

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

None.

Zero. Nada. Not one bug is known at this time. We love to see it 👑

📬 FEEDBACK 📬

Patches, bug reports, suggestions or any other feedback is welcome. Fr fr, they want to hear from you 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • PerlIO::via
  • MIME::QuotedPrint

🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

Based on an example in the standard library module MIME::QuotedPrint in Perl (version 5.8.0). Respect where it's due 🫡

📦 AVAILABILITY 📦

The latest version of this module is available from CPAN (see "CPAN" in perlmodlib for details) at

The latest source code is available from GitHub at <https://github.com/steve-m-hay/PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint>.

🧚 INSTALLATION 🧚

See the INSTALL file. (Short queen behaviour, honestly.)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl <mailto:liz@dijkmat.nl>>.
  • Steve Hay <shay@cpan.org <mailto:shay@cpan.org>> is now maintaining PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint as of version 0.08.
  • Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2012 Elizabeth Mattijsen. All rights reserved.
  • Copyright (C) 2015, 2020 Steve Hay. All rights reserved.

📜 LICENCE 📜

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the LICENCE file.

🔢 VERSION 🔢

Version 0.10

📅 DATE 📅

22 May 2022

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

See the Changes file.

ngl the way this whole manpage is like four lines of actual code and then a mountain of links is so real 💀 the documentation ate though, no crumbs.

ok bestie that's the whole thing — stay encoded, stay decoded, never both at once 💖✨🎀 byee~

— signed off from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, under the header PerlIO...dPrint(3perl) in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide. slay 💅

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