Hello Perl Monks:

I am using a Perl CGI script to display/edit a file that has data lines like:

5200    "AMX"   gtm_dist-V5.4-002B
5600    "TIAA CREFF"    gtm_dist-V5.4-001
5995    "Morgan Stanley"        gtm_dist-V5.4-001

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I match each data line against:

/^(\d\d\d\d)\s+("[^"]+")\s+(\S+)$/

and save in a hash whose key is the 1st field and whose value is a reference to an anonymous array of the 2nd & 3rd fields, ex:

$bkarr{$1} = [ $2 , $3 ];

Should the user choose to delete a line I just delete the hash entry that he specifies via:

delete $kbarr{$K};

before writing out the file. It works, but am I creating a memory leak by doing this? Do I have to somehow clean up the two-entry array whose reference I am holding in the hash entry? Thanks for any advice.

In reply to Possible Memory Leak? by Clovis_Sangrail

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