>>>>> "BH" == Bryan Harris <bryansli...@gmail.com> writes:
BH> I have about 60 MB of text data I want to include at the bottom of BH> a script. BH> 60 MB is too big for us, but compressed it would be probably only BH> 3-6 MB which is much better. Is there any way to put gzipped data BH> in the DATA section of a script, and conveniently read it? BH> I'd also prefer that my script be able to survive getting passed BH> through a terminal -- is it hard to encode the data block (MIME BH> perhaps?) so it will? not details but a couple of suggestions. there are several compress modules in cpan and i would guess some can take a string arg. if they can't you can still open a string (see perldoc perlopentut) as a file handle. so that solves the uncompress part. you can store the data encoded with B64 in the DATA part of a module/script (after __DATA__) or in a here doc. get it and decode it with a B64 or some other decoder (i think unpack/pack as uuencode support too). then uncompress. this should be all of about 3-5 lines of code in total. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
