Perl

GZip Decompress File

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Demonstrates how to uncompress a .gz compressed file to get the uncompressed original file. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

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

$success = $gzip->UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format." . "\r\n";