The chat portion of this script works (it's on message 1400) and the count keeps working. This is the majority of the log file and this does NOT work. It seems to freeze at 100 messages every time. This is to say, it'll display all messages properly until around 100 and then it stops changing.

The script that writes to the database originally works just fine, it only displays 10 keys at a time but it works perfectly at 1400+ messages. Why is this not working to display the last 100? It just locks up at about 100. 

print header, start_html('DB printing');
                                              

print "<table>";

for (grep defined($_), (keys %db)[-1 .. -100]) {
.
.
.

[download]

In reply to printing last 100 keys from hash by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.