IT WORKED,....Thanks for all the replies
I used "Gunzip.exe" on the .z files!
Here is the full code
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
#
# By a PerlMonk
#
use strict;
use Archive::Tar;
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
system(cls);
opendir (DIR, $ARGV[0]) || die "\nInvalid path $ARGV[0]!\n";
my @path = readdir (DIR);
for my $comp_file (@path)
{
next if ($comp_file eq '.' || $comp_file eq '..');
my $temp_path = "$ARGV[0]\\$comp_file";
`gunzip.exe $temp_path` if ($comp_file =~ /\.z$/);
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
$tar->read("$temp_path", 1);
@_ = $tar->list_files();
for my $compressed (@_)
{
next unless ($compressed =~ /modinfo.txt/);
$tar->extract_file( $compressed, "$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.
+txt");
open(FILE,"$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.txt") || warn "$!: Cann
+ot access temp file\n";
chomp (my @vx_data = <FILE>);
for my $vx (@vx_data)
{
next unless ($vx =~ /vx/);
$vx =~ s/^\s+//;
$vx =~ /(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+\(
+(.+)\)$/;
printf "%s, %s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,(%s)\n",$comp_file,$1,$2,$3,
+$4,$5,$6,$7;
}
close (FILE);
unlink ("$ARGV[0]\\extracted_modinfo.txt");
}
}
Thanks again "feel an urge for a donation now! :-)"