Is there any way to uuencode data in the iPhone SDK? An API call or perhaps a library?
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what type of data are you talking about?? You need to clarify this question – zpesk Oct 15 '09 at 16:18
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binary data, nothing specific, NSData objects. – luvieere Oct 15 '09 at 16:49
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Just out of curiosity, why would you need to be able to uuencode data from an iPhone app? – Jarett Millard Oct 15 '09 at 16:59
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So I can email it or post it to a server that only accepts text input. – luvieere Oct 15 '09 at 17:21
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There isn't a built-in API to uuencode data, no, but the algorithm is pretty straightforward (the Wikipedia article gives a good overview), and there's plenty of C source code out in the world (here's one example that looks like it's freely available/reusable). Since uuencode operates at the level of bytes, C code should be fine... you can get bytes from an NSData directly, or with NSString methods like UTF8String and cStringUsingEncoding.
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