First off, I'm a newbie to perl. I've only been at it for a seven or eight months, but I've read most of the books and I make sure to check out The Monastery atleast once a day.

I'm working on a program today and decided it would be good practice to put my html header and footer into subroutines so I wasn't wasting space and time. Not really thinking too much of it, I called one of my subroutines "header" and inside that sub I called for a print header; to get ready to print to the browser.(yeah, I know...) I quickly figured out the problem, but it created a file I don't fully understand. In the few seconds it was running it created a file called script.pl.core which was somewhere on the order of 750MB. I ran a super search looking for info, but returned nothing. Could someone clue me in on what this file was?

Thanks.

In reply to Another Lesson Learned (but needs clarification.) by Slipstream

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