Hello, I would like to use Compress::Bzip2 and Archive::Tar on a directory of .tar.bz2 files to extract the contents. I am able to use Compress::Bzip2 to uncompress the files, but I am unable to then use Archive::Tar to extract the files after by using the uncompressed tar data that is in a variable.

How are you "unable" to do that? I don't know Archive::Tar, but reading its documentation I find that

$tar->read ( $filename|$handle, $compressed, {opt => 'val'} )

Read the given tar file into memory.  The first argument can either be
the name of a file or a reference to an already open filehandle (or an
IO::Zlib object if it's compressed) The second argument indicates

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and also that

Note that you can currently not pass a "gzip" compressed filehandle,
which is not opened with "IO::Zlib", nor a string containing the full
archive information (either compressed or uncompressed). These are
worth while features, but not currently implemented. See the "TODO"
section.

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However you should be able to trick it with an in-memory filehandle - suppose you full archive is in $tarcontent:

# untested
open my $fh, '<', \$tarcontent or die "D'oh! $!\n";
my $tar=Archive::Tar->new($fh);

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In reply to Re: Using Archive::Tar on tar data already in memory by blazar
in thread Using Archive::Tar on tar data already in memory by cengineer

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