Re: keep running out of memory, help a newbie!

Hi kixsnap, welcome to the monastery!

> not sure what i'm doing wrong

It's pretty unreadable because of erratic indentation.

Could you fix that, please?

Probably your endless loop is causing problems.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^2: keep running out of memory, help a newbie! by kixsnap (Novice) on Feb 14, 2017 at 01:20 UTC
not sure how else to do the loop, wouldnt a for(;;) be the same thing and end up the same way? or am i missing something?	[reply]
Re^3: keep running out of memory, help a newbie! by Cow1337killr (Monk) on Feb 14, 2017 at 01:52 UTC
`... use constant LEVEL_1_LOOP_MAXIMUM => 1400; # This code keeps the +program from looping forever. my $level_1_loop_counter; FOLLOW_LEVEL_1_LINK: for ( $level_1_loop_counter = 1 ; $level_1_loop_counter <= LEVEL_1_LOOP_MAXIMUM ; $level_1_loop_counter++ ) { #------------------------------------------ print $fh_log "Level_1_loop_counter: $level_1_loop_counter\n"; if ( $level_1_loop_counter > LEVEL_1_LOOP_MAXIMUM ) { die "Runaway program.\n"; } ...` [download] Notice the belt and suspenders approach.	[reply] [d/l]