use Data::Dumper;

    use strict ;
    use warnings ;
    use IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 qw(bunzip2 $Bunzip2Error) ;
    use IO::File ;
    my $input = new IO::File "<tmp.bz2" or die "Cannot open 'tmp.bz2':
+ $!\n" ;;
    my $buffer;
    bunzip2 $input => \$buffer or die "bunzip2 failed: $Bunzip2Error\n
+";
    print $buffer;
    foreach ($buffer)
    {
        print Dumper($_);;
    }

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This works for me. Why do you need to have an @array defined (by the way i suppose it is defined somewhere else in the code!!). But even then i don't think it is a problem with bzip because if U are getting the output in print $buffer of print @{$buffer} then the problem must be somewhere else in the code. use Data::Dumper to check what is going on at each step in your foreach line.

In reply to Re^3: Read bzip2 directly into array by baxy77bax
in thread Read bzip2 directly into array by prescott2006

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