in reply to Re^2: Why would a Perl script stop with no informatives?
in thread Why would a Perl script stop with no informatives?

it stops at "24ANCHLOOP" - 24 out of 30 meaningless print statements..

Not necessarily. Do you get the same result if you add $|=1;? You could be suffering from buffering.

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Re^4: Why would a Perl script stop with no informatives?
by jdalbec (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2009 at 03:28 UTC
    and the buffering might be hiding an informative error message.
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      Not likely. STDERR is not buffered by default.
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