Monk mates, Can you possibly help me with a slight insight problem. I posted a message a few days ago asking if it was possible to convert text files to excel files. The answer was yes. Good!
Then i asked if i could unzip files downloaded from an FTP site. Again the answer was yes. Good!
Now, i was wondering if it was possible to read the files without actually having to unzip them. I have found a module called Archive::Zip::MemberRead but im not sure if this does the job.

With regards to the file and the data it has, i have no idea how big the contents may be, so when using the Archive::Zip module and its implementation 

  use Archive::Zip;
  use Archive::Zip::MemberRead;
  $zip = new Archive::Zip("file.zip");
  $fh  = new Archive::Zip::MemberRead($zip, "subdir/abc.txt");
  while (defined($line = $fh->getline()))
  {
      print $fh->input_line_number . "#: $line\n";
 }

 ## $read = $fh->read($buffer, 32*1024); ##
  print "Read $read bytes as :$buffer:\n";
}

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how can i set the file size without actually knowing its size in advance.

In reply to Reading a zipped file by MonkPaul

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