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NAME

ascii85 - ascii85-encode/decode binary data

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SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.5 9
package require ascii85 ?1.1?

::ascii85::encode ?-maxlen maxlen? ?-wrapchar wrapchar? string
::ascii85::decode string

DESCRIPTION

This package provides procedures to encode binary data into ascii85 and back.

EXAMPLES

% ascii85::encode "Hello, world"
87cURD_*#TDfTZ)

% ascii85::encode [string repeat xyz 24]
G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G
^4U[H$X^\H?a^]
% ascii85::encode -wrapchar "" [string repeat xyz 24]
G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]G^4U[H$X^\H?a^]

# NOTE: ascii85 encodes BINARY strings.
% set chemical [encoding convertto utf-8 "C\u2088H\u2081\u2080N\u2084O\u2082"]
% set encoded [ascii85::encode $chemical]
6fN]R8E,5Pidu\UiduhZidua
% set caffeine [encoding convertfrom utf-8 [ascii85::decode $encoded]]

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85

  2. Postscript Language Reference Manual, 3rd Edition, page 131. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

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KEYWORDS

ascii85, encoding

CATEGORY

Text processing

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010, Emiliano Gavilán