I think I found myself in an endless loop. This is a followup of my post yesterday adding an IF to a push.

When run, if $limit_img_size eq "yes" it will do nothing but load until judgement day or until my server decides it's time to kill it. If I change it to "no" to catch the else, the else section works as intended.

A little background on the script: It goes to ImageFap which is a free image host with free searchable galleries. I am doing a search on it and pulling back all the galleries of results on the first page. From here, I go through the galleries one at a time and extract the image links from within the gallery. All I'm collecting are image links but I need to make sure all my image links have images of a specific size or less if that's what the user wants. 

my $pics_found = $#found_images + 1;

if ($limit_img_size eq "yes")
{
   while ($pics_found < $pics_to_find * 30)  # get more than needed so
+ we can randomly choose images later
   {
     my $next_gal = pop(@found_galleries); # remove one gallery link a
+t a time until we're done
     if (!$next_gal) { last; }


     my $get_gal  = get($next_gal);

     while ($get_gal =~ m#(http://images\.imagefap\.com/images/thumb/\
+d+/\d+/\d+\.jpg)#g) 
     {
        print "1 - $1<br>"; #testing, doesn't print
        my $image = get($1);
        print "found $image<br>";  #testing, doesn't print
        my ($height, $width) = imgsize(\$image);
        push @found_images, $image
           if ($height <= $max_height and $width <= $max_width);
     }
   }

}
else
{
   while ($pics_found < $pics_to_find * 30)
   {
     my $next_gal = pop(@found_galleries);
     if (!$next_gal) { last; }

     my $get_gal  = get($next_gal);

     #########
     # collect our image links
     #########
     push @found_images, $get_gal =~ m#http://images\.imagefap\.com/im
+ages/thumb/\d+/\d+/\d+\.jpg#g;

      $pics_found = $#found_images + 1;
   }

}

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In reply to endless loop problems by Anonymous Monk

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