1Convert::Bencode(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  Convert::Bencode(3)
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NAME

6       Convert::Bencode - Functions for converting to/from bencoded strings
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SYNOPSIS

9         use Convert::Bencode qw(bencode bdecode);
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11         my $string = "d4:ainti12345e3:key5:value4:type4:teste";
12         my $hashref = bdecode($string);
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14         foreach my $key (keys(%{$hashref})) {
15             print "Key: $key, Value: ${$hashref}{$key}\n";
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18         my $encoded_string = bencode($hashref);
19         print $encoded_string."\n";
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DESCRIPTION

22       This module provides two functions, "bencode" and "bdecode", which
23       encode and decode bencoded strings respectivly.
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25   Encoding
26       "bencode()" expects to be passed a single value, which is either a
27       scalar, a arrary ref, or a hash ref, and it returns a scalar containing
28       the bencoded representation of the data structure it was passed. If the
29       value passed was a scalar, it returns either a bencoded string, or a
30       bencoded integer (floating points are not implemented, and would be
31       returned as a string rather than a integer). If the value was a array
32       ref, it returns a bencoded list, with all the values of that array also
33       bencoded recursivly. If the value was a hash ref, it returns a bencoded
34       dictionary (which for all intents and purposes can be thought of as a
35       synonym for hash) containing the recursivly bencoded key and value
36       pairs of the hash.
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38   Decoding
39       "bdecode()" expects to be passed a single scalar containing the
40       bencoded string to be decoded. Its return value will be either a hash
41       ref, a array ref, or a scalar, depending on whether the outer most
42       element of the bencoded string was a dictionary, list, or a
43       string/integer respectivly.
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SEE ALSO

46       The description of bencode is part of the bittorrent protocol
47       specification which can be found at
48       http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/protocol.html
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BUGS

51       No error detection of bencoded data. Damaged input will most likely
52       cause very bad things to happen, up to and including causeing the
53       bdecode function to recurse infintly.
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56       Created by R. Kyle Murphy <orclev@rejectedmaterial.com>, aka Orclev.
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58       Copyright 2003 R. Kyle Murphy. All rights reserved. Convert::Bencode is
59       free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
60       terms as Perl itself.
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64perl v5.36.0                      2022-07-22               Convert::Bencode(3)
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