Hi tcarmeli,

You don't need to have it global, just have it scoped outside the sub.

For example: 

{
   my %myhash;

   sub DoIt{
        my $limit=shift;
        my $i;
        # really, what you'd do here is just init the
        # as-yet uninitialized part
        foreach $i ((scalar keys %myhash)..$limit){
            $myhash{$i}=1;
        }
        $func_done = (times)[0];
        return;
   }
} # scope for %myHash

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Of course, I haven't tried this, but I think it'd do what you want, and handle the case where it's called twice with different values of $limit.

Mike

In reply to Re^3: Garbage collection at subroutine return by RMGir
in thread Garbage collection at subroutine return by tcarmeli

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