NAME File::Compressible - determine if a mime type is compressible SYNOPSIS use File::Compressible 'compressible'; use File::Type; ... my $ft = File::Type->new(); for my $file (@files) { my $type = checktype_filename($file); next unless $type; next unless compressible($type); # do some compression magic! } DESCRIPTION File::Compressible supplies one exportable function, "compressible", which takes a mime type and returns true if it is compressible, undef if not. Compressible mime types are stored in a package variable, @File::Compressible::compressible. It is concidered okay to modify this list and future versioins will maintain this. A second package variable contains precompiled regular expressions that are tested against passed mime types, it is named @File::Compressible::compressible_re. AUTHOR Mike Greb COPYRIGHT Copyright 2013- Mike Greb LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO File::Type