Dear monks,

I must admit i haven't searched much for an answer but the docs are not very clear, it's the end of the week and there is something i don't quite understand ...

Here's what i do : 

$fu = "bla bla bla bla" ;
$ba = compress ( $fu ) ;
open FFF, ">ba.txt.Z" or die "$!"  ;
print FFF $ba;
close (FFF) ;

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This produces a file with binary data in it but it doesnt seem to be a valid .Z file (or .gz for that matter...). I doubt this is the way the compress method is suposed to be used ...

The doc says :
$dest = compress($source) ;
Compresses $source. If successful it returns the compressed data. Otherwise it returns undef.
The source buffer can either be a scalar or a scalar reference.

I also tried with binmode FFF , and still no luck .
I'm missing something about buffer and in memory so if someone could explain this to me , it'd be great !!

ZlR.

In reply to Compress::Zlib : what to do with the "in memory" data ? by ZlR

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