IT WORKED,....Thanks for all the replies

I used "Gunzip.exe" on the .z files!

Here is the full code

#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
#
# By a PerlMonk
#
use strict;

use Archive::Tar;

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();

system(cls);

opendir (DIR, $ARGV[0]) || die "\nInvalid path $ARGV[0]!\n";

my @path = readdir (DIR);

for my $comp_file (@path)
{
    next if ($comp_file eq '.' || $comp_file eq '..');
    
    my $temp_path = "$ARGV[0]\\$comp_file";
    
    `gunzip.exe  $temp_path`    if ($comp_file =~ /\.z$/);
    
    my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
    
    $tar->read("$temp_path", 1);
    
    @_ = $tar->list_files();
    
    for my $compressed (@_)
    {
        next unless ($compressed =~ /modinfo.txt/);
        
        $tar->extract_file( $compressed, "$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.
+txt");
        
        open(FILE,"$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.txt") || warn "$!: Cann
+ot access temp file\n";
        
        chomp (my @vx_data = <FILE>);
        
        for my $vx (@vx_data)
        {
            next unless ($vx =~ /vx/);
        
            $vx =~ s/^\s+//;
            
            $vx =~ /(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+\(
+(.+)\)$/;
            
            printf "%s, %s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,(%s)\n",$comp_file,$1,$2,$3,
+$4,$5,$6,$7;
        }
        close (FILE);
        unlink ("$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.txt");    
        }
}
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Thanks again "feel an urge for a donation now! :-)"

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