in reply to Re^6: Syntax error makes perl hang
in thread Syntax error makes perl hang

Well I was going to try this out and give some actual figures, but when I got to 'pfo' .. 'pctpf' it swallowed all the swap and I decided to reboot rather than wait for it. 'aa' .. 'aaaaa' was fine - producing 475229 elements.

/J\