Perl

Compress a String and Save as a Gzip File

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This example demonstrates how to use the CompressStringToFile method to compress a string and write the result directly to a Gzip (.gz) file.

The input string is first converted to its byte representation using the specified character set (in this case, UTF-8). The resulting bytes are then compressed using the Gzip format, and the compressed output is written directly to the specified file.

This method is convenient when you want to generate a compressed file from in-memory text without needing intermediate objects such as BinData or StringBuilder.

Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# This example demonstrates how to compress a string and save the result
# directly to a Gzip (.gz) file.

$gzip = chilkat::CkGzip->new();

# The string to be compressed:
$inputStr = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";

# Compress the string using UTF-8 and write to a file:
$success = $gzip->CompressStringToFile($inputStr,"utf-8","output.gz");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Compression successful." . "\r\n";
print "Gzip file written to output.gz" . "\r\n";