Hey guys, this is pissing me off. I've written a perl script wich is a crawler (something that searches for information on web sites). After some time executing, the script just freezes, stops, and does nothing else. I don't even get any error messages.

I think it's a memory issue, cause the crawler stops just after a line like this:

$fileContent = ` cat $DIR_INPUT/$FILE `;

I'd really, really apreciate if anyone could help.

thanx in advance.

UPDATE:

MidLifeXis, it stops right after that line. if I try to print the var $fileContent after the cat command, I get an incomplete html page source.

here's some more code:

$DIR_INPUT="./CAPTURE";

while($i <= $npages){
        $FILE = $i . $IN_FILE;
        &wget($URL . $PAG . $i, $FILE, '', '');  #sub that call the wg
+et
            &capture($FILE);
        }

...

sub capture{
my $FILE = $_[0];
$fileContent = ` cat $DIR_INPUT/$FILE `;
print $fileContent; # Here's where it stops
...
}

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As I said before, after some iterations of the while loop, the program suddenly stops, and the print I get on screen is an incomplete page source.

In reply to Perl Script stops in middle of execution, no error messages by MatheusAA

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