Math::Base36(3pm)

💖 Math::Base36 — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the docs for Math::Base36, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (that's the (3pm) part, iykyk). it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly: base36 strings, in and out. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Math::Base36 — encoding and decoding of base36 strings. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the look, the whole look:

use Math::Base36 ':all';

$b36 = encode_base36( $number, $padlength );
$number = decode_base36( $b36 );

yes, ':all'. yes, it just hands you the functions. iconic behavior, no notes. 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

this module converts to and from Base36 numbers, and the range is literally 0..9 - A..Z. so digits for the small stuff, letters for the big stuff. classic.

and the origin story?? it was created because of an article/challenge in "The Perl Review". not me getting emotional over a module's lore 😭 main character energy fr fr.

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🌈 METHODS 🌈

encode_base36( $number, [$padlength] )

accepts a unsigned int and hands back a Base36 string representation of that number. and if you feel like it, you can optionally zero-pad it out to $padlength. that's the optional one in the brackets, in case the syntax was being shy. ✨

decode_base36( $b36 )

takes a base36 string and returns a Base10 string representation of the number. give it letters, get back numbers. the glow-up is real. 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Rune Henssel <perl@henssel.dk>

🧚 MAINTAINER 🧚

Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2002 by Rune Henssel

Copyright 2007-2015 by Brian Cassidy

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

legal bit, but make it sparkly: this is free software, bestie. redistribute it, modify it, go off — just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💖

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and that's the page, start to finish, no cap. this doc was set in type by perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-22, and honestly? she ate. 🍓 bye bestie, go encode something 🌟