DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter

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NAME

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DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter

SYNOPSIS

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    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');

DESCRIPTION

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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.

SEE ALSO

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DBM_Filter, perldbmfilter, Compress::Zlib

AUTHOR

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Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org

perl documentation Contained in the perl distribution. 
package DBM_Filter::compress ;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

our $VERSION = '0.02';

BEGIN
{
    eval { require Compress::Zlib; Compress::Zlib->import() };

    croak "Compress::Zlib module not found.\n"
        if $@;
}



sub Store { $_ = compress($_) }
sub Fetch { $_ = uncompress($_) }

1;

__END__