On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 03:25:11 +0100 (MET), Louis Pouzin wrote:
>Is there a way to handle the error condition "out of memory" ?
>This may occur when reading a whole file of unpredictable size.
>Recovering control could allow to switch to a different method.
You might try to wrap it all in an eval { ... } , but I have some doubts
if it'll work well. "Out of memory" would seem to be one of those very
low level errors, that leaves MacPerl behind in a state of shock. I
doubt if you can do much of use with it, after that.
>$_ = do {local $/; <IN> or warn 'problem with IN'};
$_ = eval { local $/; <IN> };
warn "problem with in: $@" if $@;
--
Bart.
