From: Anish Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I need your suggestions regarding writing a perl script to decompress > the data. I have an mysql table which has a field which contains data > of the longblob type. What i want to do is to connect to the database > server and then access that particualar table and decompress the data > in > the table and then store this data in some text file. > > I would appreciate your suggestions regarding this. > > Waiting for your responses.
Start by reading the docs for DBI and DBD::mysql. It's hard to suggest something for decompression since we do not know how was the data compressed. You may want to look at Compress::Zlib. HTH, Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
