> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:07 PM
> To: Beginners (E-mail)
> Subject: clearing memory
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I am drawing a blank here.. I am onsite at a customers
> location with not perl books and perldoc is not installed :(
>
> what is the quickest, cleanest , efficient way to clear out
> memory used by an array and other variables in a script?
>
> We have a script that is continuously run and sleeps every 30
> seconds b4 grabbing data and populating arrays. Is it
> possible to make a clean() that will wipe the slate clean at
> the end or beginning of the next run?
Well, you can just clear out variables individually with undef and let perl
do its garbage collection:
undef @myarray;
undef %myhasn;
undef $myscalar;
For a truly fresh start, maybe have the script exec() itself?
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