I hear PSI::FileContents is popular for doing this. Ahem, sorry.

If you want to list the files in a zip archive perhaps just unzip -l archive.zip will do what you like. That's what man zip tells me at least. I'm sure there are dos/windows equivalents.

If you really need to use Perl to do this check out Archive::Zip It looks like the memberNames method might return a list of the files within the archive.

Something to keep in mind is that somewhere either of these methods has to open() the file - otherwise how would they get any information from it? (I|We) could probably be of more help if you could provide more information about what you want to do.

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