Re^3: Possibly silly perl memory allocation question, duplicating scalars

The <STDIN> is there purely to make the program stop and wait at that point while I 'Check' the memory consumption in the task manager. The void context simply means that whatever input is typed, it is simply discarded.

The memory figures you see are just what I typed at that point so as to record that information as a part of teh console log. They are the "Memory usage" and "VM size" figures from the Task Manager Processes tab.

The null byte I write could be any value. You just have to write something, after you do the seek, to cause the 'file' to be extended to that point. Just as would with a normal file.

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Re^4: Possibly silly perl memory allocation question, duplicating scalars by periapt (Hermit) on Dec 15, 2004 at 15:28 UTC
OK, great. Thanks PJ use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;	[reply]

use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;