Hi Monks, I am supposed to get a compressed xml string from a server by LWP.
Now i want to decompress it using the Compress::Zlib module.

For doing a simple test i tried to first compress a big string and then decompressing it using this i found on the cpan documentation page for the module. 


   use Compress::Zlib;
   my $str_to_compress='a big string';
   $compressed_str=compress($str_to_compress[,1]);
   #original syntax on cpan for the two functions
   #$dest = compress($source [, $level] ) ;
   #$dest = uncompress($source) ;
   $decompressed_str=uncompress($compressed_str);
   print $decompressed_str;

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but when i try to run it it says wrong syntax.
please tell me the correct syntax or any other method to do it.

In reply to decompressing the string by mohan123

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