- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- CONSTRUCTOR
- OBJECT METHODS
- USING THE EXTERNAL GZIP
- CLASS METHODS
- DIAGNOSTICS
- SEE ALSO
- HISTORY
- COPYRIGHT
NAME
IO::Zlib - IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib
SYNOPSIS
With any version of Perl 5 you can use the basic OO interface:
use IO::Zlib; $fh = new IO::Zlib; if ($fh->open("file.gz", "rb")) { print <$fh>; $fh->close; } $fh = IO::Zlib->new("file.gz", "wb9"); if (defined $fh) { print $fh "bar\n"; $fh->close; } $fh = IO::Zlib->new("file.gz", "rb"); if (defined $fh) { print <$fh>; undef $fh; # automatically closes the file }
With Perl 5.004 you can also use the TIEHANDLE interface to access compressed files just like ordinary files:
use IO::Zlib; tie *FILE, 'IO::Zlib', "file.gz", "wb"; print FILE "line 1\nline2\n"; tie *FILE, 'IO::Zlib', "file.gz", "rb"; while (<FILE>) { print "LINE: ", $_ };
DESCRIPTION
IO::Zlib
provides an IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib and hence to gzip/zlib compressed files. It provides many of the same methods as the IO::Handle interface.
Starting from IO::Zlib version 1.02, IO::Zlib can also use an external gzip command. The default behaviour is to try to use an external gzip if no Compress::Zlib
can be loaded, unless explicitly disabled by
use IO::Zlib qw(:gzip_external 0);
If explicitly enabled by
use IO::Zlib qw(:gzip_external 1);
then the external gzip is used instead of Compress::Zlib
.
CONSTRUCTOR
-
new ( [ARGS] )
Creates an
IO::Zlib
object. If it receives any parameters, they are passed to the methodopen
; if the open fails, the object is destroyed. Otherwise, it is returned to the caller.
OBJECT METHODS
-
open ( FILENAME, MODE )
open
takes two arguments. The first is the name of the file to open and the second is the open mode. The mode can be anything acceptable to Compress::Zlib and by extension anything acceptable to zlib (that basically means POSIX fopen() style mode strings plus an optional number to indicate the compression level). -
opened
Returns true if the object currently refers to a opened file.
-
close
Close the file associated with the object and disassociate the file from the handle. Done automatically on destroy.
-
getc
Return the next character from the file, or undef if none remain.
-
getline
Return the next line from the file, or undef on end of string. Can safely be called in an array context. Currently ignores $/ ($INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR or $RS when English is in use) and treats lines as delimited by "\n".
-
getlines
Get all remaining lines from the file. It will croak() if accidentally called in a scalar context.
-
print ( ARGS... )
Print ARGS to the file.
-
read ( BUF, NBYTES, [OFFSET] )
Read some bytes from the file. Returns the number of bytes actually read, 0 on end-of-file, undef on error.
-
eof
Returns true if the handle is currently positioned at end of file?
-
seek ( OFFSET, WHENCE )
Seek to a given position in the stream. Not yet supported.
-
tell
Return the current position in the stream, as a numeric offset. Not yet supported.
-
setpos ( POS )
Set the current position, using the opaque value returned by
getpos()
. Not yet supported. -
getpos ( POS )
Return the current position in the string, as an opaque object. Not yet supported.
USING THE EXTERNAL GZIP
If the external gzip is used, the following open
s are used:
open(FH, "gzip -dc $filename |") # for read opens open(FH, " | gzip > $filename") # for write opens
You can modify the 'commands' for example to hardwire an absolute path by e.g.
use IO::Zlib ':gzip_read_open' => '/some/where/gunzip -c %s |'; use IO::Zlib ':gzip_write_open' => '| /some/where/gzip.exe > %s';
The %s
is expanded to be the filename (sprintf
is used, so be careful to escape any other %
signs). The 'commands' are checked for sanity - they must contain the %s
, and the read open must end with the pipe sign, and the write open must begin with the pipe sign.
CLASS METHODS
-
has_Compress_Zlib
Returns true if
Compress::Zlib
is available. Note that this does not mean thatCompress::Zlib
is being used: see gzip_external and gzip_used. -
gzip_external
Undef if an external gzip can be used if
Compress::Zlib
is not available (see has_Compress_Zlib), true if an external gzip is explicitly used, false if an external gzip must not be used. See gzip_used. -
gzip_used
True if an external gzip is being used, false if not.
-
gzip_read_open
Return the 'command' being used for opening a file for reading using an external gzip.
-
gzip_write_open
Return the 'command' being used for opening a file for writing using an external gzip.
DIAGNOSTICS
-
IO::Zlib::getlines: must be called in list context
If you want read lines, you must read in list context.
-
IO::Zlib::gzopen_external: mode '...' is illegal
Use only modes 'rb' or 'wb' or /wb[1-9]/.
-
IO::Zlib::import: '...' is illegal
The known import symbols are the
:gzip_external
,:gzip_read_open
, and:gzip_write_open
. Anything else is not recognized. -
IO::Zlib::import: ':gzip_external' requires an argument
The
:gzip_external
requires one boolean argument. -
IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_read_open' requires an argument
The
:gzip_external
requires one string argument. -
IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_read' '...' is illegal
The
:gzip_read_open
argument must end with the pipe sign (|) and have the%s
for the filename. See USING THE EXTERNAL GZIP. -
IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_write_open' requires an argument
The
:gzip_external
requires one string argument. -
IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_write_open' '...' is illegal
The
:gzip_write_open
argument must begin with the pipe sign (|) and have the%s
for the filename. An output redirect (>) is also often a good idea, depending on your operating system shell syntax. See USING THE EXTERNAL GZIP. -
IO::Zlib::import: no Compress::Zlib and no external gzip
Given that we failed to load
Compress::Zlib
and that the use of an external gzip was disabled, IO::Zlib has not much chance of working. -
IO::Zlib::open: needs a filename
No filename, no open.
-
IO::Zlib::READ: NBYTES must be specified
We must know how much to read.
-
IO::Zlib::WRITE: too long LENGTH
The LENGTH must be less than or equal to the buffer size.
SEE ALSO
perlfunc, I/O Operators in perlop, IO::Handle, Compress::Zlib
HISTORY
Created by Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>.
Support for external gzip added by Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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