NAME Archive::Probe - A generic library to search file within archive SYNOPSIS use Archive::Probe; my $tmpdir = ''; my $base_dir = ''; my $probe = Archive::Probe->new(); $probe->working_dir($tmpdir); $probe->add_pattern( '', sub { my ($pattern, $file_ref) = @_; # do something with result files }); $probe->search($base_dir, 1); DESCRIPTION Archive::Probe is a generic library to search file within archive. It allows you to test the existence of a particular file, which can be described in regular expression, and optionally to extract that file and inspect the file content in custom code. It supports common archive types such as .tar, .tgz, .bz2, .rar, .zip, .7z. One archive file can contain archive file of same or other type. And level of nesting is unlimited. This module depends on unrar, 7za and tar which should be in PATH. The unrar is freeware and you get it from: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm METHODS $probe = Archive::Probe->new() Creates a new "Archive::Probe" object. $probe->add_pattern(regex, coderef) Register a file pattern to search with in the archive file(s) and the callback code to handle the matched files. The callback will be passed two arguments: $pattern This is the pattern of the matched files. $file_ref This is the array reference to the files matched the pattern. The existence of the files is controlled by the second argument to the "search()" method. $probe->search(base_dir, extract_matched) Search registered files under 'base_dir' and invoke the callback. It requires two arguments: $base_dir This is the directory containing the archive file(s). $extract_matched Extract or copy the matched files to the working directory if this parameter evaluate to true. $probe->reset_matches() Reset the matched files list. ACCESSORS $probe->working_dir([directory]) Set or get the working directory where the temporary files will be created. $show_extracting_output->working_dir([BOOL]) Enable or disable the output of command line archive tool. HOW IT WORKS "Archive::Probe" provides plumbing boiler code to search files in nested archive files. It does the heavy lifting to extract mininal files necessary to fulfill the inquiry. BUG REPORTS Please report bugs or other issues to . AUTHOR This module is developed by Justin Zhang . COPYRIGHT This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.