Uncompress Gzip File From WWW::Mechanize

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a gzipped csv file that that was downloaded using WWW::Mechanzie, it can be retrieved by doing:

my $gzipped_csv_file = $mech->content;
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How can I unzip the $gzipped_csv_file and store it in $gunzipped without writing to disk?
I don't care about any buffering because it's not a large file.

my $gzipped_csv_file = $mech->content;

# uncompress gzip here
# store uncompressed file in $gunzipped here

my @file = split "\n", $gunzipped;
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Re: Uncompress Gzip File From WWW::Mechanize by jasonk (Parson) on Apr 10, 2009 at 00:29 UTC
Compress::Zlib makes it easy to do in-memory decompression: `use Compress::Zlib qw( uncompress ); my $data = uncompress( $mech->content ) or die "Error decompressing content" my @file = split( "\n", $data );` [download] www.jasonkohles.com We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Uncompress Gzip File From WWW::Mechanize by CoVAX (Beadle) on Feb 09, 2015 at 01:49 UTC
Presumably you specified (via `default_header()`) the request header, `'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip, deflate'` beforehand, so you can do this: `my $gunzipped = $mech->content( 'decoded_by_headers' => 1 );`	[reply] [d/l] [select]