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Sean Quinlan wrote: | I'm trying to find a way to compress large text strings (genomes) for | storing in a database. I'd really prefer to avoid using temp files if | possible. Not so much for loading the data, but I'm hoping to use the | same methodology on the occasion I need to decompress and use that data. | | I searched CPAN but didn't find anything that appeared to provide that | functionality. I've also struggled with opening a pipe to gzip; it | compresses fine but I haven't figured out a way to capture gzips output, | which it forces to my terminal. | | Anyone have a solution they would like to suggest? | TIA! |
How about Huffman encoding? There's Algorithm::Huffman (run-length encoding) Or you might try Compress::Zlib (file-based). How big roughly are your strings?
Wren
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