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A C# Implementation of Mime De/encode

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A C# implementation of Mime de/encode
using System;
using System.Text;

namespace MIME
{
	/// <summary>
	/// 
	/// </summary>
	public class MimeFieldCodeBase : MIME.MimeCode
	{
		public MimeFieldCodeBase()
		{
			// 
			// TODO: Add constructor logic here
			//
		}

		public override string DecodeToString(string s)
		{
			string dString = "";
			int start=0;
			while(start<s.Length)
			{
				int i = s.IndexOf("=?",start);
				if(i!=-1)
				{
					dString += s.Substring(start, i-start);
					int j = s.IndexOf("?=", i+2);
					if(j!=-1)
					{
						i += 2;
						int k = s.IndexOf('?', i);
						if(k != -1 && s[k+2] == '?')
						{
							Charset = s.Substring(i, k-i);
							string decString = s.Substring(k+3, j-k-3);
							if(s[k+1] == 'Q')
							{
								MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("quoted-printable");
								aCode.Charset = Charset;
								dString += aCode.DecodeToString(decString);
							}
							else if(s[k+1] == 'B')
							{
								MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("base64");
								aCode.Charset = Charset;
								dString += aCode.DecodeToString(decString);
							}
							else
							{
								dString += decString;
							}
						}
						else
						{
							dString += s.Substring(k, j-k);
						}
						start = j+2;
					}
					else
					{
						dString += s.Substring(i, s.Length - i);
						break;
					}
				}
				else
				{
					dString += s.Substring(start, s.Length - start);
					break;
				}
			}
			return dString;
		}

		//folding chars
		protected virtual char[] GetFoldChars()
		{
			return null;
		}

		//need fold?
		protected virtual bool IsAutoFold()
		{
			return false;
		}

		//need delimeter?
		protected virtual bool IsNeedDelimeter()
		{
			return false;
		}

		protected virtual char[] GetDelimeterChars()
		{
			return null;
		}

		protected void EncodeDelimeter(string s, StringBuilder sb)
		{
			char[] filter = GetDelimeterChars();
			string[] strArr = s.Split(filter);
			int filterIndex = 0;
			for(int i=0; i<strArr.Length;i++)
			{
				filterIndex += strArr[i].Length;
				if(strArr[i] != null)
				{
					if(Charset == null)
						Charset = System.Text.Encoding.Default.BodyName;

					switch(SelectEncoding(strArr[i]).ToLower())
					{
						case "non": sb.Append(strArr[i]);break;
						case "quoted-printable": 
						{
							MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("quoted-printable");
							aCode.Charset = Charset;
							sb.AppendFormat("=?{0}?Q?{1}?=",Charset,aCode.EncodeFromString(strArr[i]));
							break;
						}
						case "base64": 
						{
							MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("base64");
							aCode.Charset = Charset;
							sb.AppendFormat("=?{0}?B?{1}?=",Charset,aCode.EncodeFromString(strArr[i]));
							break;
						}
					}
				}
				if(filterIndex < s.Length)
					sb.Append(s.Substring(filterIndex,1));
				filterIndex += 1;
			}
		}

		protected void EncodeNoDelimeter(string s, StringBuilder sb)
		{
			if(Charset == null)
				Charset = System.Text.Encoding.Default.BodyName;

			switch(SelectEncoding(s).ToLower())
			{
				case "non": sb.Append(s);break;
				case "quoted-printable": 
				{
					MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("quoted-printable");
					aCode.Charset = Charset;
					sb.AppendFormat("=?{0}?Q?{1}?=",Charset,aCode.EncodeFromString(s));
					break;
				}
				case "base64": 
				{
					MimeCode aCode = MimeCodeManager.Instance.GetCode("base64");
					aCode.Charset = Charset;
					sb.AppendFormat("=?{0}?B?{1}?=",Charset,aCode.EncodeFromString(s));
					break;
				}
			}
		}

		public override string EncodeFromString(string s)
		{
			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

			if(IsNeedDelimeter())
				EncodeDelimeter(s, sb);
			else
				EncodeNoDelimeter(s, sb);

			if(IsAutoFold())
			{
				char[] foldChars = GetFoldChars();
				for(int i=0; i<foldChars.Length; i++)
				{
					string oldStr = foldChars[i].ToString();
					string newStr = oldStr + "\r\n\t";
					sb.Replace(oldStr, newStr);
				}
			}

			return sb.ToString();
		}

		string SelectEncoding(string s)
		{
			int nNonAscii = 0;
			for(int i=0;i<s.Length;i++)
			{
				if(IsNonAscii(s[i]))
					nNonAscii += 1;
			}
			if(nNonAscii == 0)
				return "non";
			else
			{
				int nQSize = s.Length + nNonAscii*2;
				int nBSize = (s.Length+2)/3*4;
				return (nQSize <= nBSize || nNonAscii*5 <= s.Length)?"quoted-printable":"base64";
			}
		}

		bool IsNonAscii(char c)
		{
			return (int)c > 255;
		}
	}

	public class MimeFieldCodeAddress : MIME.MimeFieldCodeBase
	{
		public MimeFieldCodeAddress()
		{
		}

		protected override char[] GetFoldChars()
		{
			char[] foldchars = {',', ':'};
			return foldchars;
		}

		protected override bool IsAutoFold()
		{
			return true;
		}

		protected override bool IsNeedDelimeter()
		{
			return true;
		}

		protected override char[] GetDelimeterChars()
		{
			char[] d = {'(',')','<','>','"'};
			return d;
		}

	}

	public class MimeFieldCodeParameter : MIME.MimeFieldCodeBase
	{
		public MimeFieldCodeParameter()
		{
		}

		protected override char[] GetFoldChars()
		{
			char[] foldchars = new char[1];
			foldchars[0] = ';';
			return foldchars;
		}

		protected override bool IsAutoFold()
		{
			return true;
		}
		
		protected override bool IsNeedDelimeter()
		{
			return true;
		}

		protected override char[] GetDelimeterChars()
		{
			char[] d = {'(',')','<','>','"'};
			return d;
		}
	}
}

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