in reply to Re: Losing control of large regular expressions
in thread Losing control of large regular expressions

I assume you mean: $ENV{PERL_SIGNALS} = "unsafe"; Thanks for the idea, but no luck I am afraid.

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Re^3: Losing control of large regular expressions
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2005 at 05:24 UTC

    I believe that you have to set the environment variable before invoking Perl, not within Perl. My reading of perl.c suggests that Perl sets the appropriate internal flag before parsing the script.