in reply to Out of memory! without system errors

all i got was a message saying (Out of Memory!) without getting any sort of warnings from Perl

The Out of memory message is a warning from Perl; telling you you've asked for more memory -- ~20,000GB -- than your system has available.

You could achieve your expected result by doing:

print "********************\n" for 1 .. 1_000_000_000_000;

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Of course, you might have to wait a while.

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Re^2: Out of memory! without system errors
by 5plit_func (Beadle) on Dec 05, 2013 at 01:49 UTC
    BrowserUk, thank you very much for your explanation i am humbled by your explanation and alternative given to achieve my playfulness using Perl.
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