I believe that line dereferences the array reference and creates a new array with the same 10,000 contents. With your recursive calls to quicksort, that probably eats up memory fast. There does not ...

Hi all,<br><br>I have a Perl problem. I got 4 arrays consisting of strings. I want to compare 4 arrays, and match for intersection and difference. I found a 'solution ...

An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

In the December 2000 issue of Linux Journal, I reviewed the latest edition of the classic Perl text: Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (or The Camel for short). In that review, my advice to new Perl ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...