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. To support Bzip2- compressed files, you should install IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2. 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 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2008, Leon Brocard. LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.