Can someone tell me if this is a natural occurrence, or possibly something I'm doing wrong.

I've got a 72 byte hex string that I'm trying to encode and at the 77th byte it keeps putting a newline character.

Example:
hex: f89b1c0a34d7ab5446368c48107fff2a138baf8650d6c6464518c3f0d4c850083d8b1d30
base64: Zjg5YjFjMGEzNGQ3YWI1NDQ2MzY4YzQ4MTA3ZmZmMmExMzhiYWY4NjUwZDZjNjQ2NDUxOGMzZjBk
NGM4NTAwODNkOGIxZDMw

Am I going to need to run a regex on this or is it just the emulator and web browser that produces this?

Thank you,
deMize


Try it yourself:
#!/yourpath/perl

use MIME::Base64;
use Strict;

   my $s_enc = "f89b1c0a34d7ab5446368c48107fff2a138baf8650d6c6464518c3
+f0d4c850083d8b1d30";

   print encode_base64($s_enc) . "\n";

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As you can tell I'm a Perl neophyte..a Perlophyte! so please go easy on me

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