in reply to Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib

Been trying for months to get it working. Any ideas?

Yes. (And I don't often say this so emphatiocally.) LEARN TO USE STRICT AND WARNINGS IN YOUR CODE! It'll save you "trying for months"!!!

The call to Compress::Zlib->inflate at line 158 does not decompress anything for reasons unknown.

The code in line 158 is: my ($nout, $status) = $y->inflate($s->{buf}) but there is no other reference to a variable $y in the entire script.

And that is just one of the bugs strict and warnings would throw in your face help you find.

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Re^2: Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2016 at 11:47 UTC

    I removed 'use strict' and 'use warnings' because they throw up a load of unrelated error messages. The $y is a typo and should be $zlib.

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      I removed 'use strict' and 'use warnings' because they throw up a load of unrelated error messages

      “Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now.” :)

      The $y is a typo and should be $zlib.

      Yup ... (not quite sure how 'y', is a "typo" of 'zlib'; but whatever...) Exactly (part of) what strict & warnings saves you from.

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        Not such a big mistake, I hope.

        I can post a 5000-line script with 'use strict' or a 200-line script without it, but it won't get us any closer to discovering why Compress::Zlib->inflate does not work.

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