Re^3: Trying to understand Perl :-)

[Corion]

Please put your text in between <p>...</p> tags, and your code in between <code>...</code> tags. Writing your questions as stream-of-consciousness comments makes your post very unpleasant to read to me.

Perl manages all memory through reference counting, so you can release most memory by not holding any reference to it anymore.

If your question is "Why is this giving me an error", you will find it usually helps us help you much better if you explicitly show the verbatim error that Perl shows.