in reply to Opening and reading .gz file

See Compress::Zlib if you want a module for this sort of thing. 
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Re: Re: opening and reading .gz file
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Aug 22, 2002 at 20:12 UTC

    Better yet, see IO::Zlib, which lets you use a simple filehandle interface.

    use IO::Zlib;  #requires Compress::Zlib, of course
my $fh = IO::Zlib->new("foo.gz");
while (<$fh>) {
    go_nuts();
}

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