Perl

MIME Header Q and B Encoding and Decoding

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Demonstrates how to Q and B encode/decode. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();

$sb->Append("This is a test");

print $sb->getEncoded("B","utf-8") . "\r\n";
# output is:
# =?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=

print $sb->getEncoded("Q","iso-8859-1") . "\r\n";
# output is:
# =?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?=

$sb2 = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();

$sb2->Append("=?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=");
$sb2->Decode("B","utf-8");
print $sb2->getAsString() . "\r\n";

# output is:
# This is a test

$sb2->Clear();
$sb2->Append("=?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?=");
$sb2->Decode("Q","utf-8");
print $sb2->getAsString() . "\r\n";

# output is:
# This is a test

# "B" or "Q" will decode both B and Q.
$sb2->Clear();
$sb2->Append("=?utf-8?Q?This_is_a_test?= 123 =?utf-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Q=?=");
$sb2->Decode("Q","utf-8");
print $sb2->getAsString() . "\r\n";

# output is:
# This is a test 123 This is a test