There are streaming modules on CPAN that support gzip and Bzip2 and many more based on PerlIO::via, all using syntax like:

  # compress
  open  my $fh, ">:via(XXZ)", "test.xxz";
  print $fh $text;

  # decompress
  open  my $fh, "<:via(XXZ)", "test.xxz";
  while (<$fh>) {
      ...
      }

[download]

where XXZ is the required PerlIO::via::XXZ (gzip, Bzip2, ...) and .xxz is the extension that goes with it (.gz, .bz2, ...).

I needed this for xz-(de)compression, but it wasn't there (yet), so I stole from existing modules and whipped up PerlIO::via::xz, which works for what I want.

BUT, it fails in a scope where $/ = undef;, and I have no tuits to investigate.

This has not (yet) been put to CPAN, and to be honest, I don't feel like it (yet).

If anyone thinks this is a good thing to have and wants a kickstart in getting something ready to distribute, please contact me: you're welcome to grab it a use it to make it *your* (first) distribution.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to PerlIO::via::xz by Tux

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