NAME Compress::LZW - Pure-Perl implementation of scaling LZW VERSION version 0.04 SYNOPSIS use Compress::LZW; my $compressed = compress($some_data); my $data = decompress($compressed); DESCRIPTION Compress::LZW is a perl implementation of the Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression algorithm, which should no longer be patented worldwide. It is shooting for loose compatibility with the flavor of LZW found in the classic UNIX compress(1), though there are a few variations out there today. I test against ncompress on Linux x86. FUNCTIONS compress Accepts a scalar, returns compressed data in a scalar. Wraps Compress::LZW::Compressor decompress Accepts a (compressed) scalar, returns decompressed data in a scalar. Wraps Compress::LZW::Decompressor EXPORTS Default: compress decompress SEE ALSO The implementations, Compress::LZW::Compressor and Compress::LZW::Decompressor. Other Compress::* modules, especially Compress::LZV1, Compress::LZF and Compress::Zlib. I definitely studied some other implementations that deserve credit, in particular: Sean O'Rourke, - Original author, Compress::SelfExtracting, and another by Rocco Caputo which was posted online. AUTHOR Meredith Howard COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Meredith Howard. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.