[Wellington-pm] decompressing a string

[Steve Piner]

Shouldn't that be inflate rather than deflate?

Steve

On 15/11/2012 9:53 a.m., Dan Horne wrote:
> Hi Mongers
> I'm trying to convert a Python routine to Perl. The point where I'm
> stuck is where I need to decompress a string. The Python code is
> something like (extraneous code removed)
> import zlib
> mystring = '<value from previous function>'
> print zlib.decompress(mystring)
> However, it's not clear to me how to replicate this in Perl. I've tried
> use Compress::Zlib;
> my $mystring = '<value from previous function>';
> my $x = deflateInit();
> my ($out,$status) = $x->deflate($mystring );
> $status == Z_OK or die "deflation failed\n";
> print $out;
> Unfortunately, the Perl code doesn't work - $out is gobbledygook -- and
> as far as I can tell from the doco, Compress::Zlib seems to be
> interested in decompressing filehandles not strings. Any advice on how
> to decompress a string appreciated
> Dan
>
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