posted December 13, 2002 02:37 PM            

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' Purpose: UUdecode a given UUencoded text and return the result.
' 
' Original code was not 100% correct, so have replaced it with code
' from Peter Redei. Thank you Peter! Your routine is much more correct.  
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FUNCTION uuDecode(strIn AS STRING) AS STRING
    ON ERROR RESUME NEXT
    DIM strLine     AS STRING
    DIM strDecoded  AS STRING
    DIM i AS LONG
    DIM j AS LONG
    DIM sOut AS STRING
    
    IF LEFT$(strIn, 6) = "begin " THEN  'check if it is a encoded file
        strIn = MID$(strIn, INSTR(1, strIn, $LF) + 1)
    END IF
    IF RIGHT$(strIn, 4) = "end" + $LF THEN 'check if "end" is available
        strIn = LEFT$(strIn, LEN(strIn) - 7)
    END IF
    FOR j = 1 TO PARSECOUNT(strIn, $LF)
        strLine = PARSE$(strIn, $LF, j)
        
        strLine = MID$(strLine, 2)
        REPLACE "`" WITH " " IN strLine
        IF RIGHT$(strLine, 1) = CHR$(13) THEN strLine = LEFT$(strLine, LEN(strLine) - 1)
        FOR i = 1 TO LEN(strLine) STEP 4
            'now some decoding
            strDecoded = strDecoded + CHR$((ASC(MID$(strLine, i, 1)) - 32) * 4 + _
                              (ASC(MID$(strLine, i + 1, 1)) - 32) \ 16)
            strDecoded = strDecoded + CHR$((ASC(MID$(strLine, i + 1, 1)) MOD 16) * 16 + _
                              (ASC(MID$(strLine, i + 2, 1)) - 32) \ 4)
            strDecoded = strDecoded + CHR$((ASC(MID$(strLine, i + 2, 1)) MOD 4) * 64 + _
                              ASC(MID$(strLine, i + 3, 1)) - 32)
        NEXT i
        sOut = sOut &  strDecoded
        strDecoded = ""
    NEXT
    FUNCTION = sOut
END FUNCTION

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