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.IX Title "Math::Base36 3pm"
.TH Math::Base36 3pm "2022-10-22" "perl v5.34.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Math::Base36 \- Encoding and decoding of base36 strings
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&  use Math::Base36 \*(Aq:all\*(Aq;
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\&  $b36 = encode_base36( $number, $padlength );
\&  $number = decode_base36( $b36 );
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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This module converts to and from Base36 numbers (0..9 \- A..Z)
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It was created because of an article/challenge in \*(L"The Perl Review\*(R"
.SH "METHODS"
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.ie n .SS "encode_base36( $number, [$padlength] )"
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.IX Subsection "encode_base36( $number, [$padlength] )"
Accepts a unsigned int and returns a Base36 string representation of the
number. optionally zero-padded to \f(CW$padlength\fR.
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.IX Subsection "decode_base36( $b36 )"
Accepts a base36 string and returns a Base10 string representation of the
number.
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Rune Henssel <perl@henssel.dk>
.SH "MAINTAINER"
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Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
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Copyright 2002 by Rune Henssel
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Copyright 2007\-2015 by Brian Cassidy
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.