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 ...

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 ...

*apologize for the 'wide' post*<BR><BR>I'm a perl newbie, and I'm having a little trouble with multidimensional arrays in perl.<BR><BR>I'm a Bioinformaticist grad student, and I'm coding a simple DNA ...

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 ...