The raw ZIP file(contains only one XML source file) is an attachment in an email which I can use Mail::POP3Client and MIME::Base64 to parse into a Perl string $zipdata. From here, I need to uncompress the attached $zipdata into XML flow, and use XML::Simple to parse the information I need. My questions are:

• Which Perl modules are recommended to unzip a standard ZIP flow(saved in a Perl scalar), do I have to use a temporary file??
• To parse the XML file in the ZIP flow, it seems that I need to know the filename of this XML file, i.e. Archive::Zip::MemberRead. But the XML filename contains some arbitrary numbers for different emails which I donot know beforehand. how to handle this?? :-)

I know I can save $zipdata into a ZIP file and use Linux unzip to uncompress it and check the filename of XML document and then go back to Perl to parse the XML document. But how to handle all of these under Perl. Any suggestions?

Many thanks

lihao

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