You don't make a thread just by calling a subroutine thread(), so you are way off, and not actually creating any threads at all. Here is what you probably are looking to do.

P.S. It's actually more complicated in real life scripts, so don't be dazzled by this simplistic example. :-) 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;;
use strict;
use threads;


for (1..10) {
   print "hello $_  from main\n";
}


for (1..10){
  threads->create( \&thread, $_ )->detach;
}

print "all done, press the Enter key to exit\n";
<>;  # this is done so the main thread dosn't exit before
# the threads can finish


sub thread {
   my $val = shift;
   
   foreach my $x (1..10) {
       print "hello $x from thread $val\n";
       #select( undef,undef,undef,.5); #half second sleep
   
   }
}

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In reply to Re: multithreading sample needed by zentara
in thread multithreading sample needed by sweepy838

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