I'm working with a really long array of scalars (~14.4 million entries). I read all the numbers from a file into a single scalar using: 
  while (<ASA>) {
      $ASAlist .= $_;
  } #end while

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Then I split that single scalar into a list of numbers: 
@ASAList = split(/ /, $ASAlist);

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It just seems to fail on the splitting (the first time it segment faulted with a panic:POPSTACK error and the second time it just died). It has worked on a shorter array (102,000 numbers). Is there some length limit on arrays? Is there a better way to split the long scalar into the array? (I'm using perl 5.8.0.)

Thanks.

In reply to Limit on array size? by Dogg

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