I think you're being bugged by the typical problem that releasing contents of variables doesn't release the memory back to the OS. That only happens when the program quits.

You don't seem to be in a hurry. Why not just restart the program? This script shows the concept: 

use appiqcli; my @eventlist = appiqlist(-event -all);
sleep(10);
exec $^X, $0;

[download]
You may have to add any extra parameters.

Note: $^X is the full path to the current perl interpreter, $0 is the name of the script. And yes, it works on Win32.

You can watch out for a keypress in that sleeping period, and not do the exec statement if you see one. Or, just have the user press ctrl-C.

In reply to Re: break out of enless loop does not release memory by bart
in thread break out of enless loop does not release memory by PugSA

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