title: Using perl, is there a way to open gzip files and read through the lines without fully decompressing?
body: <p>I basically want to make a file handle for the gzip and use it to match strings like I would any other file.  I need to compare the lines from two gzip files but they're each 15 GB. I was using Archive::Extract and File::temp to read through them but my hard drive fills up.</p>