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Sean Quinlan wrote:
| I'm trying to find a way to compress large text strings (genomes) for
| storing in a database. I'd really prefer to avoid using temp files if
| possible. Not so much for loading the data, but I'm hoping to use the
| same methodology on the occasion I need to decompress and use that data.
|
| I searched CPAN but didn't find anything that appeared to provide that
| functionality. I've also struggled with opening a pipe to gzip; it
| compresses fine but I haven't figured out a way to capture gzips output,
| which it forces to my terminal.
|
| Anyone have a solution they would like to suggest?
| TIA!
|
How about Huffman encoding? There's Algorithm::Huffman (run-length
encoding) Or you might try Compress::Zlib (file-based). How big roughly
are your strings?
Wren
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