[boulder.pm] perl read .gz?
Dan Moore
moore at xor.com
Thu Jun 8 17:14:12 CDT 2000
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>
> 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
> }
It's my understanding (from the man page) that gzip uses Lempel-Ziv
encoding.
Searching for 'compression' on CPAN yields a few modules that seem to deal
with Lempel-Ziv encoding--but nothing explicitly to do with gzip. You
could test those modules, I guess.
Dan
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