Hi,

I'm quite happily using Archive::Zip, but what I'm missing is a test wether the file is a zip file or not.

I receive attached files (*.txt, *.log and *.zip) by email.
My Mailprogram now calls my perl-prg
and 'delivers' all attachements as tmp-files (/tmp/../uihm7934.tmp),
so I'm loosing the post-scripts to recognize wether it is a zip-file or not.

No I want to check if the actual file (kluai8qwz.tmp) is it a zip-file (-> continue) or not (->next).

Right now I try to access that file

    status = zip->read( $tmp );

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and I get this (unnecessary) errormessage:
format error: can't find EOCD signature
        Archive::Zip::Archive::_findEndOfCentralDirectory('Archive::Zi
+p::Archive=HASH(0x85fd7ac)','IO::File=GLOB(0x85fd974)') called at /us
+r/lib/perl5/sit
e_perl/5.8.3/Archive/Zip.pm line 955
        Archive::Zip::Archive::readFromFileHandle('Archive::Zip::Archi
+ve=HASH(0x85fd7ac)','IO::File=GLOB(0x85fd974)','/tmp/kde-cas/kmailn0q
+acc.tmp') calle
d at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Archive/Zip.pm line 929
        Archive::Zip::Archive::read('Archive::Zip::Archive=HASH(0x85fd
+7ac)','/tmp/kde-cas/kmailn0qacc.tmp') called at /home/QTS/bin/zipBarC
+.pl line 52

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Well the Error_Code is set as well, but this would be enough.

Does anybody know a more elegant way of a zip-check?

Thanks in advance
Carl Carl

In reply to check *.tmp wether it's a zip or not by Anonymous Monk

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