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Jsummers at 15:46, 18 September 2022

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Dan Tobias at 05:12, 12 December 2012

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Dan Tobias at 05:12, 12 December 2012

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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Serialization }} '''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in for torrent file..."

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Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Serialization }} '''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in for torrent file..."

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'''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in for [[torrent file]]s in the BitTorrent protocol. It consists of a series of strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries; since lists and dictionaries contain multiple elements of the Bencode types, they can be nested hierarchically, encapsulating complex data structures.

The elements are:

* Strings: coded as a decimal number giving the length of the string, then a colon, then the string itself; e.g., '''5:stuff'''

* Integers: coded as the letter "i", then the integer (as a series of decimal digits), then the letter "e"' e.g., '''i42e'''

* Lists: coded as the letter "l", then the list elements (each encoded as one of the Bencode types, which can include other lists), then the letter "e"; e.g., '''li42e5:stuffi666ee''' (which contains 42, 'stuff', and 666 as its elements)

* Dictionaries: pairs of keys and values, where the key is a string and the value can be any Bencode type; surrounded by an opening letter 'd' and closing letter 'e'; keys must appear in alphabetic order; e.g., '''d4:testi42e3:zzz4:junke''' is a dictionary where key 'test' has value 42 and key 'zzz' has value 'junk'.

== References ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode Bencode (Wikipedia)]
* [http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding Bencoding specification]

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 '''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in [[torrent file]]s for the BitTorrent protocol. It consists of a series of strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries; since lists and dictionaries contain multiple elements of the Bencode types, they can be nested hierarchically, encapsulating complex data structures.

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-'''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in [[torrent file]]s in the BitTorrent protocol. It consists of a series of strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries; since lists and dictionaries contain multiple elements of the Bencode types, they can be nested hierarchically, encapsulating complex data structures.
+'''Bencode''' (pronounced B-Encode, not Ben Code) is a serialization encoding format used in [[torrent file]]s for the BitTorrent protocol. It consists of a series of strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries; since lists and dictionaries contain multiple elements of the Bencode types, they can be nested hierarchically, encapsulating complex data structures.
 The elements are: