need a little help. i want to encode and decode .jpg files to binary strings. I have read several posts on this site as well as the MIME-Base64 docs. i came up with this simple test:

open(PIC,"<","$dir\\$filename");
    while (read(PIC,$_,57)) {
        $binData .= encode_base64($_);
    }
    close PIC;
    open(PIC,">","E:\\$filename");
    print PIC decode_base64($binData);
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the file gets created, but its not a viewable picture anymore, instead just a blob of various colors. Can someone please educate me? never mind, windows needs binmode before the write....searched for just jpg this time and found the answer