[boulder.pm] perl read .gz?

[Robert L. Harris]

Is there a perl module to let me read a .gz or .Z file as if it was 
plain text?  I'm currently doing a:

open(INFILE, "gunzip -c file.gz |");
while(<INFILE>) {
  #stuff
}


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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'