Hello,

I have a script that fires off a process. This process generates an HTML-formatted report of varying size, which gets stuffed into a scalar for submission to a database. I have a satisfactory strip() procedure that removes unecessary content prior to submission. What I would like to do is compress this even further if possible, such that the information in the scalar is compressed, submitted, and upon querying is uncompressed to its original state.

Intuitively I think gzip or some such algorithm, but the data is in a scalar and as far as I know there is no "file" data type supported for Postgres. Alternatively, there are several modules on CPAN that operate on scalar strings, such as Compress-LZF, in which case my question is, which is best?

All in all, what would people suggest?

In reply to compressing text by Anonymous Monk

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