base64 encoding with Perl

[Kai Großjohann]

In the documentation for the MIME::Base64 package I see the following:

/----
|     The same approach as a command line:
|    
|        perl -MMIME::Base64 -0777 -ne 'print encode_base64($_)' <file
| 
|     Decoding does not need slurp mode if all the lines contains a
|     multiple of 4 base64 chars:
|    
|        perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)' <file
\----

It seems that this would really make base64 encoding/decoding using
Perl quite easy.  But is MIME::Base64 likely to be included in all
(current) Perl distributions?

kai
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