in reply to Unzip file to scalar, treat scalar as a file

You can skip the expense of holding the complete uncompressed zip file in memory and stream directly from the zip files as shown below.

use IO::Uncompress::Unzip qw(unzip $UnzipError); my $logDirectory = '/logs'; foreach my $zipFile (glob("$logDirectory/*.zip")) { my $output; print "Processing $zipFile\n"; local $/ = "\r\n"; my $unzip = new IO::Uncompress::Unzip $zipFile or die "Cannot open $zipFile: $UnzipError\n"; while (<$unzip>) { #do something } close $unzip or die $!; }

Doing it like this means that the complete uncompressed zip file doesn't not need to be stored in memory.

Also note I set $/ to "\r\n" as you say that the data uses this to delimit each log entry.