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MIME::QuotedPrint(3)
NAME
  MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings

SYNOPSIS
   use MIME::QuotedPrint;

   $encoded = encode_qp($decoded);
   $decoded = decode_qp($encoded);

DESCRIPTION
  This module provides functions to encode and decode strings into the
  Quoted-Printable encoding specified in RFC 2045 - MIME (Multipurpose
  Internet Mail Extensions).  The Quoted-Printable encoding is intended to
  represent data that largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable
  characters in the ASCII character set.  Non-printable characters (as
  defined by english americans) are represented by a triplet consisting of
  the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

  The following functions are provided:

  encode_qp($str)
      This function will return an encoded version of the string given as
      argument.

      Note that encode_qp() does not change newlines "\n" to the CRLF
      sequence even though this might be considered the right thing to do
      (RFC 2045 (Q-P Rule #4)).

  decode_qp($str);
      This function will return the plain text version of the string given as
      argument.

  If you prefer not to import these routines into your namespace you can call
  them as:

    use MIME::QuotedPrint ();
    $encoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::encode($decoded);
    $decoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::decode($encoded);

COPYRIGHT
  Copyright 1995-1997 Gisle Aas.

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

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