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🗜️ DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🗜️ Enable compression on a tied DBM database	`$db->Filter_Push('compress');`	Adds the compression filter; all data written is automatically compressed and read data is decompressed
📦 Ensure required module is available	`perl -MCompress::Zlib -e 1`	Verifies `Compress::Zlib` is installed; a fatal error will be thrown at runtime if it’s missing

📖 SYNOPSIS

    use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, GDBM_File, NDBM_File, ODBM_File
    use DBM_Filter ;

    $db = tie %hash, ...
    $db->Filter_Push('compress');

📝 DESCRIPTION

This DBM filter will 🗜️ compress all data before it is written to the database and 📦 uncompressed it on reading.

⚠️ A fatal error will be thrown if the Compress::Zlib module is not available.

🔗 SEE ALSO

DBM_Filter, perldbmfilter, Compress::Zlib

✍️ AUTHOR

Paul Marquess pmqs AT cpan.org

perl v5.34.0 2026-06-23 DBM_Filter::compress(3perl)

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