hi monks,

I have a string of text and I want to save to disk in a compressed format.

I have had a look at Compress::Zlib and I have searched Perlmonks and the net for a simple example of writing a string to a file in ZIP or compressed format of some sort.

Everyone and every example appears to be based on reading ZIP files not writting them.. apart from the compress:zlib itself which is I cant make much sense of.

This is the kind of thing Im hoping I can do but Im obviously doing something wrong: 

my $string = "This is a test string";
my $x = deflateInit() or die "Cannot do that\n";
open(OUT,">dmp.zip");
print OUT $x->deflate($string);
close(OUT);

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Do I really need to flush it?
Should I binmode the OUT file?
Does running it on a Windows box make any difference?
It appears as if Compress::Zlib is a pretty low level module and no doubt there are others on top that simplfy its use, but this then relies on the server I run it on having that module - something Im trying to avoid if possible.

Thanks for any advice you can give 

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In reply to Compress zlib and friends by wolis

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