Hmmm .... 24576 bytes is really not what I'd call big. 24K, which would represent 0.009% of 256M RAM. I'd guess that merlyn's supposition does not actually apply, though I wouldn't be surprised if merlyn knows somthing I don't in this regard. I've parsed 100M+ files, breaking them into huge chunks (one scalar representing about 10M, 426 times the size of your token, for example) and never had a problem.

What is the exact error message? If you aren't getting one, you may want to try a trace with something like 

  strace -o my-script.out my-script.pl

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and then read up from the bottom of my-script.out to see if there is anything in particular that strikes you just before you see the segfault signal. Just a suggestion ....

Hope this helps :-)

P.S. Question for merlyn if he checks back: What is the nibbling approach? I performed a search here and looked through my library, but couldn't find anything ....

In reply to Re: Parse::RecDescent size limit? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Parse::RecDescent size limit? by Anonymous Monk

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