in reply to reading compressed data

You must not have looked very hard, there are lots of modules that can do this, including Compress::Zlib, IO::Zlib, Compress::Raw::Zlib, IO::Compress::Zlib, Compress::Zlib::Perl, IO::Compress::Gzip, Tie::Gzip and PerlIO::Gzip.

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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Re^2: reading compressed data
by kettle (Beadle) on Dec 13, 2006 at 02:43 UTC
    I found 4 of the ones you mention, after a 2 minute search, but when there are so many choices and I'm not familiar with any of them, it seems faster to ask, than to read through all of the associated documentation and try to figure out whether there is one I ought to use, or others that I perhaps shouldn't. For example, the first module I googled upon, IO::Uncompress::RawInflate warns "WARNING -- This is a Beta release. Do NOT use in production code." Anyway, thanks for the list.
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