in reply to Odd: Out of memory! error

$records is an array reference, you dereference it as a hash. The result is that you try to assign 1 to a very large index, autovivifying everything below that. I get the message:

Out of memory during "large" request for 1073745920 bytes, total sbrk(
+) is
        1616744 bytes at oop.pl line 6 (#1)

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Update: This is right as far as it goes, but ++wog nailed this question and settled BlueLines's objection at the same time.

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Re: Re: Odd
by BlueLines (Hermit) on Feb 23, 2002 at 02:05 UTC
    Nope. Perl throws an exception when you try to dereference an array ref as a hash. Try it: 
    [jon@devotchka jon]$ perl
my $a = [];
$a->{z} = 1;
Can't coerce array into hash at - line 2.

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