Update: eat lunch, particle. Abigail-II is right. it's trying to interpret the value of $counter as a variable name-- and it's a perl-special constant var. things like this are often not what you mean, and are caught by use strict 'refs';
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it's a syntax error, i assume you mean $counter and not $$counter. you're dereferencing the scalar, which is giving you it's memory location. you can't assign to that, because it's a constant. you'll have to fix lines 178 and 184 as well.

i must say, this code doesn't look right. i'd use Parallel::ForkManager for this application -- it's a well-oiled wheel.

~Particle *accelerates*

In reply to Re: Forking 100 processes, 5 at a time by particle
in thread Forking 100 processes, 5 at a time by nagan

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