NAME

Archive::Peek - Peek into archives without extracting them

SYNOPSIS

      use Archive::Peek;
      my $peek = Archive::Peek->new( filename => 'archive.tgz' );
      my @files = $peek->files();
      my $contents = $peek->file('README.txt')

DESCRIPTION

This module lets you peek into archives without extracting them. It currently supports tar files and zip files.

METHODS
new
The constructor takes the filename of the archive to peek into:

my $peek = Archive::Peek->new( filename => 'archive.tgz' );

files
Returns the files in the archive:

my @files = $peek->files();

file
Returns the contents of a file in the archive:

my $contents = $peek->file('README.txt')

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008, Leon Brocard.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.