Is it also possible to read the file without unzipping it? In the end i want to be able to get rid of the file so as to save space as soon as its in Excel format. Can this be done in perl?

Maybe you're a bit unclear talking about the file: what file do you refer to, the ZIP archive file (i.e. "file.zip" in the example) or the compressed file that's contained in the archive (i.e. "subdir/abc.txt" in the example)?

If you're dealing with the former, I don't understand your question - you can delete the ZIP file once you'r done. Assuming the latter, AFAIK all unzipping using Archive::Zip happens in memory, and I guess it's the same for Archive::Zip::MemberRead, so you won't see anything cluttering your filesystem.

Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))")

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^3: Reading a zipped file by polettix
in thread Reading a zipped file by MonkPaul

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