Hi PerlMonks,

After some reading and thinking, I came up with this. (see below)

Thank you RichardK for suggesting a method for piecewise matching. I had to tweak the regex a bit by prefixing it with 'm', which I thought was assumed to be there but I guess not. :)

Also, thank you johngg for helping me keep even one more small variable in check. 

print "\tProcessing data...\n";
foreach my $link (@links) {
    
  # Get data from the internet
  my $httpReply = $browser->get($link);
    
  ####### This is the solution: piecewise matching, as suggested.
  while($html =~ m/(value)(value2)/g) {
    ## This is also my (a) solution, it turns out pushing two 
    ## variables joined by a string is _way_ less expensive than 
    ## an array, or anonymous array.
    ## 
    ##The array has more things to keep track of than a simple scalar.
    # Correct?
    ## (I kinda went "doh!" when realized this...)
    push(@{$data{$2}}, join("::", $1, $link) );
  }
}

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Also, some fun things I saw on the way: http://perl.find-info.ru/perl/028/perlbp-chp-12-sect-17.html http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pos.html

In reply to Re^3: Binding operator RAM eater by techtruth
in thread Binding operator RAM eater by techtruth

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