MirBSD manpage: DBM_Filter::encode(3p)

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NAME

     DBM_Filter::encode -- character encoding DBM Filter

SYNOPSIS

         use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, or GDBM_File, or NDBM_File, or ODBM_File
         use DBM_Filter ;

         $db = tie %hash, ...
         $db->Filter_Push('encode' => 'iso-8859-16');

DESCRIPTION

     This DBM filter allows you to choose the character encoding
     will be store in the DBM file. The usage is

         $db->Filter_Push('encode' => ENCODING);

     where "ENCODING" must be a valid encoding name that the
     Encode module recognises.

     A fatal error will be thrown if:

     1    The Encode module is not available.

     2    The encoding requested is not supported by the Encode
          module.

SEE ALSO

     DBM_Filter, perldbmfilter, Encode

AUTHOR

     Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org

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