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scan_uuencoded(3)	    Library Functions Manual	       scan_uuencoded(3)

NAME
     scan_uuencoded - decode uuencoded data

SYNTAX
     #include <libowfat/textcode.h>

     size_t scan_uuencoded(const char *src,char *dest,size_t* destlen);

DESCRIPTION
     scan_uuencoded  decodes  uuencoded  data  from src into dest.  It will stop
     when it encounters any non-valid input characters.  It will then write  the
     number  of  decoded  bytes  in dest into *destlen, and return the number of
     bytes decoded from src.

     Note that real world uuencoded  data  is  sometimes  permitted  to  contain
     whitespace  characters or new lines. This function will not allow those and
     return the decoded data until then.

     uudecoding works on lines, and the first byte in  each  line  contains  the
     length  of  the line (encoded). scan_uuencoded expects one such line as in-
     put, and it will decode all the bytes in it.

     uuencoded data can contain bytes from 0x21 to 0x96, which means it  is  not
     "string safe" (can contain single and double quotes and backslash).

     dest can be NULL. destlen can be NULL. dest can be src.

RETURN VALUE
     scan_uuencoded  returns  the  number  of  bytes  successfully  scanned  and
     processed from src.

EXAMPLES
     scan_uuencoded("&9FYO<F0*",buf,&i) -> return 9, i=5, buf="fnord"

SEE ALSO
     scan_xlong(3), scan_8long(3), fmt_ulong(3)

							       scan_uuencoded(3)

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