Re^2: Archive::Tar extract

[gautamparimoo]

in reply to Re: Archive::Tar extract
in thread Archive::Tar extract

Thanks Trizen but the problem with your script is that when it uses get_contents it is okay for a normal file but if pdf files or any other special files are involved we cannot just simply open it . I need to extract one file at a time to the specified location perform some matching and then move to the next file which is possible with above script but only on normal text files . So plz help in extracting tem to specified location one by one

[trizen]

Here we go:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Archive::Tar;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(catdir);

my $input = "libpst.tar.gz";
my $tar   = Archive::Tar->new($input);
my @files = $tar->list_files;

my $output_dir = 'path';    # change this

foreach my $file (@files) {

    my $extracted_file = catdir($output_dir, $file);
    $tar->extract_file($file, $extracted_file);

    if ($file =~ /\.txt\z/) {    # or whatever
        open my $fh, '<', $extracted_file or do { warn "$0: Can't open
+ file $file: $!"; next };
        while (defined(my $line = <$fh>)) {
            # do something with $line
        }
        close $fh;
    }
}