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+/* LBS: An LFS-inspired filesystem backup system
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Vrable
+ *
+ * Utility functions for converting various datatypes to text format (and
+ * later, for parsing them back, perhaps).
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LBS_FORMAT_H
+#define _LBS_FORMAT_H
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+
+std::string uri_encode(const std::string &in);
+std::string uri_decode(const std::string &in);
+std::string encode_int(long long n);
+void dict_output(std::ostream &o, std::map<std::string, std::string> dict);
+
+long long parse_int(const std::string &s);
+
+#endif // _LBS_TARSTORE_H