Awesome. Thanks everyone. I should have asked this question
months ago! I was shelling out to 'unzip' to convert to text and so
on. While this is implicit shelling too, it is elegant. Thanks folks.
On 5 May 00, at 19:23, Philip Newton wrote:
From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reading gzip files transparently
Date sent: Fri, 5 May 2000 19:23:49 +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Or is there a module that will make the gzip
> > file appear as an unzipped text file? Like a file handle or
> > something...so I just need to declare the file handle and use it for
> > reading...
>
> There's an example in perlop. Look in the section on "I/O Operators" for an
> example of how to mess with your @ARGV array to automatically filter
> compressed files through gzip.
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
>
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