MIME::Decoder::UU(3)

💖 MIME::Decoder::UU 💖

okay bestie, so this is MIME::Decoder::UU, straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the internet. it's the little decoder that could, and it's about to make your uuencoded streams make sense. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

MIME::Decoder::UU — decode a "uuencoded" stream 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

it's a generic decoder object, so if you wanna know how to actually use it, go read MIME::Decoder. she's the main character, this one's her supporting actress. 👑

# see MIME::Decoder for usage

it also lowkey has a preamble() method, which lets you scoop up all the text that shows up before the uuencoded part of the stream. so like, the lil chit-chat at the top? recoverable. iconic. 🎀

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so this is a MIME::Decoder subclass, and she handles a nonstandard encoding — the one where the data get uuencoded. it's giving vintage. it's giving "this was not in the MIME spec but here we are." 🙈

the common non-standard MIME encodings that land here are:

• x-uu
• x-uuencode

those two. that's the vibe check. 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• MIME::Decoder — go read her, fr fr

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and, real talk, the UU-decoding code was lifted from uuexplode</s>, a Perl script by an unknown author... 🫶

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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ok so that's the whole page, bestie. every flag, every path, every copyright line — all of it, untouched, just wearing cuter clothes. 💖

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perl v5.42.0 · 2026-02-11 · MIME::Decoder::UU(3) — and that's the sign-off, mwah, slay, periodt. 💅✨