Hi, I saw in a Python script called youtube-downloader, that all the modules and main script code were all condensed into an inline zip file, which would be automatically decompressed by the Python Interpreter. It's first few lines would look like this: 
#!/usr/bin/env python
PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@B...^Q^X'^@^@..^@^@^\^@^\^@youtube_dl/FileDo
+wnloader.pyUT    ^@^C..fQ%zfQux^K^@^A^D.^C^@^@^D.^C^@^@.=.w.Fr... &#1
+555;.^B.)Xv.k......

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I've since learned that you can unzip it manually if you cut'n'paste properly.

So does Perl have a way of doing this? I thought is was a cool feature.

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In reply to Source code in Inlined zip file by zentara

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