From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-09-07T12:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: read .gz file directly

CC Chen wrote in post #1020179:
> How to read the xxx.gz file directly and don't decompress the file.

You *don't* want to decompress the file?

data = File.read("foo.gz")

You *do* want to decompress the file? Use the built-in zlib support:

require 'zlib'
data = Zlib::GzipReader.open("foo.gz") { |f| f.read }

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