Try undef $var;
There is a delete, but it's to delete a key out of a hash.
-Rob
> On 20010515.1427, Cory Petkovsek said ...
>
> I'm having trouble running out of memory with this perl script.
> Actually, I'm able to run out of memory, but that's the problem!
>
> It's running on 16500 images, opening one in gimp (in the
> background), checking the size, then moving on to the next. I was
> unable to find a function in perl to delete a referenced variable
> (delete $img), or a function in PDB (perl-gimp database
> Gimp->gimp_close($img)) to close an image, or deallocate the memory.
>
> The script gets through about 350-500 images before saying something
> about it can't create tiles. However, I'm watching a memory meter,
> as it drops down.
>
> Any suggestions please!?
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
