Re: Reducing application footprint: large text files

Apart from pack and unpack...

Storable might be another and easier option, but I don't know much about the achievable compression.

The 3rd option is to zip the raw data. You could use Archive::Zip for it.

Best choice depends on the details...

Cheers Rolf
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Re^2: Reducing application footprint: large text files by afoken (Chancellor) on Mar 03, 2018 at 15:44 UTC
I would avoid Storable for anything but short-lived temporary data. See also Re^2: DBI fetchall_hashref convert to scalar, Re: Accessing variables in an external hash without eval, Re^2: Storing state of execution. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]