in reply to AnyUncompress on a reference to another reference
in thread Reading a .txt file under 2 levels of compression

anyuncompress doesn't take a Name parameter. Try 
    anyuncompress \$inner => \$txt;

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If you are only dealing with gzip files, then use this 
    gunzip \$inner => \$txt;

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Re^2: AnyUncompress on a reference to another reference
by LazyIntern (Initiate) on Jan 14, 2011 at 12:47 UTC 
        anyuncompress \$inner => \$txt;

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    oh my...it worked! thank you! Have a good weekend!
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