use strict; use warnings; use IO::Compress::Gzip qw(gzip $GzipError) ; use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip $GunzipError) ; my $gzipped; for my $txt ( qw(Alpha Beta Gamma)) { gzip \$txt => \$gzipped, Append => 1 or die "gzip failed: $GzipError\n"; } my $out; gunzip \$gzipped => \$out, MultiStream => 1 or die "gunzip failed: $GunzipError\n"; print "Uncompressed is:\n$out\n";