Re: uuencoding to deal with line breaks

Try URL encoding the body instead of uuencoding it.

You can use CGI::encode(), or roll your own via

  ($encoded = $body) =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.-])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))/eg;

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Re: Re: uuencoding to deal with line breaks by epoptai (Curate) on Dec 16, 2000 at 06:11 UTC
Thanks dws. I like that uu can't be casually read and is a bit smaller than url encoded output. I didn't know about CGI::Encode. I tired ichimunki's suggestion but ended up with line breaks in the file. That's what i was trying before resorting to uu. I'm being used by windows if that makes a difference. IO has me stumped. I tried a few 45s short of 45k or 45megs and noticed nothing strange. But i'm hoping it never throws a \| in there :-) 45?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: uuencoding to deal with line breaks by I0 (Priest) on Dec 16, 2000 at 06:47 UTC
`$encoded_body = pack "u", $body="\n"x46` will contain `"\n"`, If you were worried about `"\n"` in `$body`, what about `"\n"` in `$encoded_body`?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: uuencoding to deal with line breaks by epoptai (Curate) on Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36 UTC
Rarely there's an `\N` in `$encoded_body` (it's all uppercase) but it doesn't cause a problem, and `$encoded_body=~s/\n//g;` doesn't touch it.	[reply]