Re^2: Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows

I thought about base 64, but not so sure that all the binary data can be encoded/decoded correctly. What do you think?

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Re^3: Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 03, 2014 at 14:54 UTC
That is its function - to armor binary data in an ASCII-only environment. It is (IIRC) how binaries were distributed on NNTP, for example. --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^4: Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows by yfnecz (Novice) on Jan 03, 2014 at 16:40 UTC
Thanks, I tired putting base-64 encoded binaries to the DATA, and then decoding and writing to file. It works! Thanks for your help :)	[reply]