The problem must be somewhere else in your script. I just cut-n-pasted your code, and got it to run in 2 minutes. Here's my complete code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ('param');

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><h1>Testing bigharas inventory problem</h1>\n";

@inventory = qw( camel llama );


if (param('action') eq 'submit') {

     print "Reading Data...<br>\n";

     foreach (@inventory) {
        my $qty = param("quantity$_");
        $qty{$_} = $qty
                }
     print "<table border=1>\n";
     foreach (@inventory) {
                        print "<TR>";
                        print "<TD>$_</TD>";
                        print "<TD>$inv_prices{$_}</TD>";
                        print "<TD>$qty{$_}</TD></TR>";
                }
    print "</table>\n";

    print "That's all\n";

} else {

    print "<form><table border=1>\n";

    foreach (@inventory) {
        print "<TR>";
        print "<TD>$_</TD>";
        print "<TD>$inv_prices{$_}</TD>";
        print "<TD>$inv_weights{$_}</TD>";
        print "<TD><input type=\"text\" size=\"4\" name=\"quantity$_\"
+ ></TD></TR>"
    }

    print "</table><input type=submit name=action value=submit>\n";

}

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In reply to Re: CGI problem: trying to assign parameters in a loop by bjelli
in thread CGI problem: trying to assign parameters in a loop by bighara

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