Re: Getting Text From A Compressed File

My curiosity (I'm a Linux user): what does it mean that pipes don't work? Isn't it possible to do something like:

open CLEARDATA, "gunzip -c $filename |";
while (<CLEARDATA>) {
   /^my.*pattern$/ && print
}
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in Windows? I thought there was some kind of work-around for this.

TIA,

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

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^2: Getting Text From A Compressed File by mdog (Pilgrim) on Apr 01, 2005 at 18:35 UTC
You are absolutely correct...that does work! When I said "pipes don't work", I meant that you can't pipe the output of one program directly into the input of another using the normal *NIX way of "\|". I actually did not think about messing with the filehandles the way you did so many thanks (and ++). Learned another great thing here on perlmonks!	[reply]