DBM_Filter::compress

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#NAME

DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter

#SYNOPSIS

use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, or GDBM_File, or NDBM_File, or ODBM_File
use DBM_Filter ;

$db = tie %hash, ...
$db->Filter_Push('compress');

This DBM filter will compress all data before it is written to the database and uncompressed it on reading.

A fatal error will be thrown if the Compress::Zlib module is not available.

Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org