NAME¶

Encode::Base58 - Base58 encodings (for Flickr short URI)

SYNOPSIS¶

  use Encode::Base58;
  my $short  = encode_base58($number);
  my $number = decode_base58($short);

DESCRIPTION¶

Encode::Base58 is a base58 encoder/decoder implementation in Perl. Base58 encoding is used in shortening ID numbers into a short string for Flickr's short URL ("flic.kr").

AUTHOR¶

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

LICENSE¶

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO¶

<http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157616713786392/>

<http://gist.github.com/101753> (in Ruby)

<http://gist.github.com/101674> (in Objective-C and unit tests)