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.

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $gzip = Chilkat2::Gzip->new;

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

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

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