Greetings,

I am putting together a (in my opinion :-) very cool Perl application that stores website metadata in a database, and then dynamically generates HTML. Just the initial version has lots of useful features, and I plan on making it Open Source as soon as it is somewhat functional, but that isn't why I'm posting this. :-)

My problem is that I am pulling Perl subroutines out of the database, and after I eval about 20k of code eval seems to get full, and I get errors as though the code has been truncated. I know the code isn't truncated, so I'm pretty sure it is some wierd problem with eval. Here is the example code:

eval "sub " . $SubName . " {" . $SubBody . "}";

After checking here, I came accross http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=5430&lastnode_id=864 and tried the following code for first subroutine to be loaded that goes beyond this mysterious limit:

      my $SubRef;
      my $Hack = "sub " . " {" . $Subroutine->[2] . "}";
      eval "\$SubRef = $Hack";
      undef &{ *VWP_GenQueryHTML{CODE} };
      *VWP_GenQueryHTML = $SubRef;

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Unfortunately this appears to suffer from the same problem.

Can somebody please help? It's frustrating to be so close to a useful project and get stymied like this.

Thanks,
James

Edit by mirod: added code tags

In reply to Odd eval Problem by nontrivial

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