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I'm parsing huge log files of urls looking for specific paramter values. In an attempt to not "reinvent the wheel", I decided to use CGI.pm. But it seemed like memory was leaking like crazy.

Here's a quick example of what I'm talking about: 
use CGI;

while (<STDIN>)
{
   if (1)
   {
      my $cgi = new CGI($_);
      my $blah = $cgi->param('q')
   }
}

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You can see that memory is being used about a Mb a sec. if you feed it some random text. Shouldn't the memory be freed (or atleast continued to be used by the process) rather than gargling more? (since it's local to the "if") I even tried "undef".

Also, does anyone have a better solution than using the weighty cgi.pm since all I'm really interest in is just getting the parameter values? I guess I could write some sort of regular expression but there's a lot of room for error.

Thanks in advance- David

In reply to Memory leaking? - CGI.pm by daviddhall

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