Re^12: Reading zipped files (.gz)

[ravi45722]

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[Corion]

This is the third time I link you to open. Have you read it? What parts of the documentation are problematic for you?

The string constructs a pipe, which open then opens. Thus, you can read from the process pipe as if it were a file. This allows you to read uncompressed data from a file without decompressing the file on disk.