my $zipped_raw = Compress::Zlib::memGzip($raw_genome); my $raw_genome = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($zipped_raw); #### $fu = "bla bla bla bla" ; $ba = Compress::Zlib::memGzip( $fu ) ; open FFF, ">ba.txt.gz" or die "$!" ; print FFF $ba; close (FFF) ;