Re: [MacPerl] clearing an array

[Gary Ebert <gary@rdss.com>]

J. Linder wrote:
> 
> Will the following clear an array totally from memory?
> 
> %array = ();
> 
>  or does it just zero all the elements thereof?
> 
> The reason I am asking is I am getting "out of memory" errors and I could
> zero the arrays after use.  This would free up memory by 75%!
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jann
[snip]


I am not sure if that will work or not but you might want to look at the
undef() function.  I believe that will do what exactly what you want.

				Gary

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