In case you have not noticed Perl Builder inserts itself between your code and Perl. As a result code runs about 10-100 times slower in the IDE than from the command line, and sometimes weird stuff happens. I always double check on the command line if I think my code is OK but it chokes in PB2. Often the code runs fine so something in the PB2/perl.exe interface is breaking it. Most code runs fine in PB2 but forking does not. I get the same result as you in PB2. There is however nothing wrong with my code as you have found when you run it from the command line :-)

The lastest version 2c is better that 2b or 2a. The {ahmm} *extended life demo versions* are all unstable and more buggy than the registered product.

cheers

tachyon

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