MIME::D...::Binary(3)

💖 MIME::Decoder::Binary(3) 💖

okay bestie, so the page header thingy is MIME::D...::Binary(3) and it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, but the actual star of the show — the manual name — is MIME::Decoder::Binary. say it with me now. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

MIME::Decoder::Binary — the decoder that literally does nothing. perform no encoding/decoding. zero. nada. it's giving "my job here is done" energy and honestly? iconic. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

that's it. that's the synopsis. she's low maintenance. 🌸

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

A MIME::Decoder subclass for the "binary" encoding (in other words, no encoding).

The "binary" decoder is a special case, bestie, and here's why: it's ill-advised to read the input line-by-line. like, imagine that. an uncompressed image file might conceivably have loooooooooong stretches of bytes without a "\n" among them, and we do not want to risk blowing out our core. 😭 so instead, we read-and-write fixed-size chunks. slay.

Both the encoder and decoder do a simple pass-through of the data from input to output. that's the whole vibe. no transformation, no drama, just vibes and bytes moving from here to there. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• MIME::Decoder

go read that one too, iykyk. 💜

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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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not me getting emotional over a pass-through decoder fr fr 🥹

okay that's the whole page bestie, ily, go decode something 💖✨

— signed, sealed, delivered by perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-02-11, and the original footer said MIME::D...::Binary(3) so we're keeping that energy 🎀🦋