[ale] Base64 encoding in Perl

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:

    Christopher> I'm trying to use MIME::Base64::encode to encode a 9m
    Christopher> binary file into Base64.  I'm using sysopen and
    Christopher> sysread on the file but I'm not sure how to append
    Christopher> the result of the read into a data buffer.

If you check down in the "EXAMPLES" section of "perldoc MIME::Base64"
it says you should just read and encode using a multiple of 57 bytes
to completely fill up a single base64 line:

          use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);

          open(FILE, "/var/log/wtmp") or die "$!";
          while (read(FILE, $buf, 60*57)) {
              print encode_base64($buf);
          }

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