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How are you checking decoded file?

May be you're under Windows and need to use binmode?

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Re^2: Help: Mime decoding of a large file
by jujiro_eb (Sexton) on Apr 16, 2009 at 12:50 UTC
    Hello Gangabass,

    Yes, I am on Windows platform. What is binmode? I did not see any documentation in the Mime package about Binmode. Can you please elaborate.

    Thanks.

    Ash

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      Read: perldoc -f binmode

      Oversimplified explanation: Win will puke trying to cope with binary data unless suitably instructed (binmode) that said data includes (most) non-ASCII chars.

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        Thanks guys.

        Binmode did fix my encoding issue of a PDF file. However, Binmode does not do anything while decoding it. Decoded file is still corrupted.

        Directory of c:\

        04/13/2009 06:54 PM 7,171,180 O.pdf (Original file))
        04/16/2009 09:08 AM 7,518,867 a.mimed.pdf (Decoded file with binmode)
        04/16/2009 09:00 AM 7,518,867 a.pdf (Decoded file without binmode)

        Ash

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