Re: Using Perl to Read jar file MANIFEST file.

On 5 mar 2008, at 19.23, Michael Barto wrote:
> Has anybody every tried to create a Perl program ro read the  
> contents of the MANIFEST file in java jar file? We are trying to  
> develop something to provide comparisons for change between  
> different implementations. Is this a simple Perl backtic, system or  
> exec of the jar command or is there a more exotic way to do it?  
> Also, we need to extract Checksum. But that seems documented.

If I remember correctly JAR files are simply Zip files so you should  
be able to use something like Archive::Zip to read the file.

Cheers
Claes