NAME

Math::Base36 - Encoding and decoding of base36 strings

SYNOPSIS

  use Math::Base36 ':all';

  $b36 = encode_base36($number);
  $number = decode_base36($b36,$padlength);

DESCRIPTION

This module converts to and from Base36 numbers (0..9 - A..Z)

It was created because of an article/challenge in "The Perl Review"

EXPORT

None by default.

encode_base36($number,[$padlength])

Accepts a unsigned int and returns a Base36 string representation of the number. optionally zero-padded to $padlength.

decode_base36($B36)

Accepts a base36 string and returns a Base10 string representation of the number.

AUTHOR

Rune Henssel, <perl@henssel.dk>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Rune Henssel. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.