Hello Monk, I am facing an issue with Archive::Tar module(version 1.96). I am trying to use 'Archive::Tar->new()' on one tar.gz file the compressed size of which is 31 MB and if extracted size is 151 MB. I have written a sample small program for this. It works well with perl version 5.8.7 however for perl version 5.20.1 it gives out of memory error. Following is my program- 
use Archive::Tar;

my $bundle = "C:\\My_Sample.tar.gz";
my $tar_engine = Archive::Tar->new($bundle, 1);

if($tar_engine == undef)
{
    print "\nCant get tar object\n";
}
else
{
    my @filelist = $tar_engine->list_files();          
    if(!$tar_engine->extract(@filelist))
    {
        my $ret = 1;
        print "\nError in extraction.\n";
    }
}

print "\nCompleted Successfully\n";

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For perl-5.20.1, it gives out of memory error when Archive::Tar->new() is called. I am trying this out on Windows. Can anyone help me out ? Please let me know you require any more information.

In reply to Archive::Tar is working with perl-5.8.7 but giving Out Of Memory error with perl-5.20.1 by Sushant_K

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