Dear Monks,

I have implemented a short sample code of question for better explanation.

I am trying to use a string storing an integer that I want to increment when ever I would be calling my sub program.

My solution so far is storing the value on a .txt file reading the value and icrementing it on every round. Sample of working code is provided under.

I am wondering if there is a possible solution, to store the value to an allocated memory, that will be not used until I calle it again. I want my subprogram to be able to complete the process and not loose the value from the memory. I was even thinking in worst case scenario to use MySQL database but I want to avoid this solution.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @words;
my $word;
my $text;
my $file = "test.txt";
open (DATA, "+<", $file)
    or die("Could not open file: ".$file.". $!\n");

sub add {
    print "I am in\n";
    while( <DATA> ) {    
    chomp;
    @words = split('');
    foreach $word (@words) {
        print "This is word: ".$word."\n";
        $text = $word + 1;
        print "This is the new word: ".$text."\n";
    }
    }
}

&add();
print DATA "".$text."\n";
close (DATA);

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Thank you for your time and effort.

In reply to Temporary usage of RAM memory by thanos1983

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