All, This may seem trivial to you all, but is there a way to Base64 encode a variable OTHER than a Perl string?? The only examples I've found are with $string. I am trying to encode a file that I have read in as such: 
open(DATA, $datafile) || die ("Could not open file");
my @rawdata=<DATA>;
close(DATA);

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 Now I want to Base64 encode @rawdata. Can I do this without having to encode the file itself on the file system? You may ask why I want to do it this way. The reason for this, is because the data is a binary file and I am trying to send it via HTTP through Perl's LWP library. When I attempt to do this, Perl URL-encodes it which I DO NOT want, or at the very least, want to avoid in some manner. Maybe there is a way to simply tell Perl not to URL-encode it. I don't know. Thanks for your help in advance.

In reply to How to Base64 Encode an array variable?? by URAvgDeveloper101

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