From: Milo Thurston Date: 2004-10-07T22:39:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Index of multiple similar strings ts wrote: > R> ??? Care to explain? > You create a String object for each call, you don't have this problem with > $~.begin(0) That would explain it. Some of the strings I'm looking at are several MB in size. I've been writing out the data to disk and flushing stdout, but $` seemed to leave each complete sequence in memory, causing it to run out rather rapidly. -- www.sirwilliamhope.org