Decompression of Files

Rails
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Hi, I’d like to read an SVG file compressed into SVGZ format. In Java I
think I could use GZIPInputStream. Is there anything similar in Ruby?

Thanks.

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Craig McDonnell wrote:

Hi, I’d like to read an SVG file compressed into SVGZ format. In Java I
think I could use GZIPInputStream. Is there anything similar in Ruby?

Yes. The Zlib module that comes with Ruby should be able to handle what
you want. See:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/index.html

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Philip R.
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