Convert::Base64(3)

💖 Convert::Base64 — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found it — this is the Convert::Base64(3) page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. It's giving tiny module, big vibes. Let's get into it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Convert::Base64 — encoding and decoding of Base64 strings 🦋

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.001 — baby's first version number, we love a humble queen 👑

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

use Convert::Base64;

$encoded = encode_base64("\x3a\x27\x0f\x93");
$decoded = decode_base64($encoded);

literally that's it. two functions. in, out. the whole main character arc. 💅

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

This module hands you functions that convert strings to and from the Base64 encoding, exactly as described in RFC 4648. no cap.

Under the hood it's implemented as a light wrapper over MIME::Base64 — so it's not doing anything wild, it's just standing on the shoulders of a legend. 🫶

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💜 FUNCTIONS 💜

• encode_base64

my $encoded = encode_base64("foo");

Encode a string of bytes into its Base64 representation. bytes go in, alphabet soup comes out. ✨

• decode_base64

my $decoded = encode_base64("Zm9v");

Decode a Base64 string into a string of bytes. (yes the example says encode_base64, that's just how the page is written, we don't edit the ancestors 🙈)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• MIME::Base64 — the classic Base64 implementation for Perl, used internally by this module (the real one behind the curtain 🎭)
• Convert::Base32 — the original inspiration for this module 🌈
• <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648> — the Base64 specification, i.e. the sacred text 📜

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

🐛 Bugs / Feature Requests 🐛

Please report bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at <https://github.com/robn/Convert-Base64/issues>. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue — so you're not just screaming into the void, bestie, they'll ping you. 💌

📦 Source Code 📦

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

<https://github.com/robn/Convert-Base64>

git clone https://github.com/robn/Convert-Base64.git

go forth and clone, you icon. 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Robert Norris <rob@eatenbyagrue.org>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Robert Norris.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one shipped as perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — so go forth, encode some bytes, and remember: every Base64 string is just a girl trying her best. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅