Badger...c::URL(3pm)

💖 Badger::Codec::URL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Badger::Codec::URL page — it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally just URL encoding and decoding but make it a whole module. so cute of it.

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✨ NAME ✨

Badger::Codec::URL — URL encode/decode 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

no cap, this is all it takes:

use Badger::Codec::URL;
my $codec   = Badger::Codec::URL->new();
my $encoded = $codec->encode("Hello World!");
my $decoded = $codec->decode($encoded);

look at her go. main character energy fr fr 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this module is a subclass of Badger::Codec, and what it does is URL encoding and decoding. that's it. that's the vibe. 🌈

but WAIT, bestie, you need to know the difference between URI and URL, because it is not the same thing and the manpage said it first:

• URI encoding is strict — it encodes characters like ";", "?" and "/".
• URL encoding is more lax and does not encode those characters.

so which one do you reach for? here's the tea:

• use the URI codec for encoding URL parameters.
• use the URL codec to encode complete URLs.

that's the whole distinction, periodt. 🫶

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⭐ FUNCTIONS ⭐

🌸 encode_url($data)

this function URL-encodes the $data you hand it as an argument. slay.

🌸 decode_url($data)

this function URL-decodes the $data you hand it as an argument. iconic.

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💅 METHODS 💅

🦋 encode($data)

URL-encodes the data referenced by the first argument. it's lowkey just delegating to the encode_url() function. 💫

$encoded = Badger::Codec::URL->encode($data);

🦋 decode($data)

decodes the encoded data you pass as the first argument. and yeah, it's delegating to the decode_url() function. 🍓

$decoded = Badger::Codec::URL->decode($encoded);

🦋 encoder()

returns a reference to the encode_url() function. that's it. tiny but mighty. ✨

🦋 decoder()

returns a reference to the decode_url() function. matching set, obsessed. 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andy Wardley <http://wardley.org/> — the legend themselves. 🙌

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Andy Wardley. All rights reserved.

bestie, that's the legal bit, please respect it 🥺

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• Badger::Codecs
• Badger::Codec

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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and that's the page!! this doc shipped with perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-28 — so you know it's been living its best life. bye bestie, go encode something cute 💜✨