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Re: $_ Memory Leak
by shmem (Chancellor) on Aug 01, 2006 at 07:45 UTC
    The usage of $_ generally doesn't raise any problems. But, as always, that depends on the context - which you don't give. You might want to re-read this answer to a previous post of yours.

    --shmem

    _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                                  /\_¯/(q    /
    ----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
    ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}