MIME::D...::Base64(3)

💖 MIME::Decoder::Base64 — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for MIME::D...::Base64(3), and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she's a whole vibe. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

MIME::Decoder::Base64 — the girl who encodes/decodes a "base64" stream. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

a generic decoder object, no cap. for the actual usage deets you gotta go see MIME::Decoder — she's the one holding the aux cord here 🫶

A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so MIME::Decoder::Base64 is a subclass of MIME::Decoder, specifically for the "base64" encoding. and the name? iconic choice actually — it was picked to jibe with the pre-existing MIME::Base64 utility package, which this class literally uses to translate each chunk. it's giving "named after her bestie" energy fr fr 💜

• 🍓 when decoding, the input gets read one line at a time. it all piles up in an internal buffer, and that buffer gets decoded in multiple-of-4-sized chunks — plus a possible "leftover" input chunk, of course. because leftovers are always invited to the function 😌
• 🌈 when encoding, the input gets read 6840 (120 * 57) bytes at a time. and every single section of 57 bytes becomes a line holding 76 Base64 characters. math girlies stay winning 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

MIME::Decoder — go read her, she's the main character of this whole family 🫶

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 📜✨

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ngl that license paragraph is the realest part of any manpage and we respect her for it 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! written up as perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-02-11, for MIME::D...::Base64(3) — mwah, go decode something gorgeous 🌸💅🦋