Encode::Base58(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Encode::Base58 — it's giving base58 encodings, specifically for Flickr short URIs 🦋 (and yeah, this is the Encode::Base58 page from the Perl manual, section 3pm, bestie, we're in Perl land now 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so literally the whole vibe is two function calls, no cap:

use Encode::Base58;

my $short  = encode_base58($number);
my $number = decode_base58($short);

one number in, one cute little string out, and then you flip it back 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so Encode::Base58 is a base58 encoder/decoder implementation, written in Perl, and it is so good at its job 🫶

base58 encoding is the whole trick where you squish ID numbers down into a short string, and the reason anyone cares is that it's what powers Flickr's short URL — you know, the flic.kr ones 💅✨

like… numbers are long and ugly and the short strings are cute and tiny. it's giving glow-up. it's giving main character energy. periodt. 👑

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> — the icon who wrote this, we stan 🫶🌸

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💜 LICENSE 💜

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay, free software rights 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• <http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157616713786392/>
• <http://gist.github.com/101753> — this one's in Ruby 💎
• <http://gist.github.com/101674> — this one's in Objective-C, and it comes with unit tests 🧚

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and that's the whole page bestie, we're done here 🦋

this doc came from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-19, filed under Encode::Base58(3pm) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ mwah, bye!! 💅🎀