On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 20:18, Gyepi SAM wrote: > Yes, it does use files, but newish perls support the concept of in-memory > files. So the PerlIO::gzip example becomes: > > use PerlIO::gzip; > my $string; > open FOO, ">:gzip", \$string or die $!; > print FOO 'blah blah blah'; > close FOO; > print $string; #careful, this may mess up your terminal!
Thanks Gyepi! Unfortunately, while this did not throw any errors, it also did not produce any output? 100: 8:50pm % perl -v This is perl, v5.8.1 built for i586-linux-thread-multi -- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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