out of memory

new script: now it gives error out of memory help?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
#use Carp;
#use diagnostics;
use strict;
#use warnings;

my @pages;
my @xfilenames; 
my @filenames;
my @xtitles; 
my @titles;
my @xheadings; 
my @headings;
my @xstuff; 
my $xstuff=""; 
my @stuff;
my @xtemplate; 
my $xtemplate=""; 
my @template;



open(PAGES, "<pages.txt") || die $!;
@pages = <PAGES>;
close(PAGES);

foreach (@pages) {
    if (m/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/) {
        push(@xfilenames, $_)
        }
    elsif (m/^\*{4}title\*{4}/) {
        push(@xtitles, $_)
        }
    elsif (m/^\*{4}heading\*{4}/) {
        push(@xheadings, $_)
        }
    else {    
        push(@xstuff, $_)
        }
    }



foreach (@xfilenames) {
    s/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@filenames, $_);
    }
foreach (@xtitles) {
    s/^\*{4}title\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@titles, $_);
    }
foreach (@xheadings) {
    s/^\*{4}heading\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@headings, $_);
    }

$xstuff = join("", @xstuff);
@stuff = $xstuff =~ /\*{4}stuff\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}endstuff\*{4}/sg;


open(TEMPLATE, "<template.html") || die $!;
@xtemplate = <TEMPLATE>;
close (TEMPLATE);



$xtemplate = join("", @xtemplate);
@template = $xtemplate =~ /^(.*?)\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/sg;
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}title\
+*{4}/sg);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}title\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}headings\*{4}
+/sg);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}headings\*{4}(.*?)/sg);



for (my $i=0; $i < (@filenames); $i++) {
    open(FILE, ">@filenames[$i]") || die $!;
    print FILE qq($temlate[0] $title[$i] $template[1] $heading[$i] $te
+mplate[2] $stuff[$i] $template[3]);
    close(FILE);
    }


print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print <<EndHTML;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transisional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>

<title>create</title>
</head>
<body>
EndHTML

foreach (@filenames) {
    print "<p>Name:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@titles) {
    print "<p>Titles:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@headings) {
    print "<p>Headings:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@stuff) {
    print "<p>stuff:$_</p>";
    }
print <<EndHTML;
</body>
</html>
EndHTML
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Re: out of memory
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 23, 2001 at 00:18 UTC

my @filenames;
my @titles;
my @headings;
my @stuff;
foreach (@pages) {
    chomp;
    if (/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/) {
        s/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}//;
        push @filenames, $_;
    } elsif (m/^\*{4}title\*{4}/) {
        s/^\*{4}title\*{4}//;
        push @titles, $_;
    } elsif (m/^\*{4}heading\*{4}/) {
        s/^\*{4}heading\*{4}//;
        push @headings, $_;
    } else {    
        s/\*{4}stuff\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}endstuff\*{4}/sg;
        push @xstuff, $_;
    }
}
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Note - don't declare all your variables up-front. That's a very C-like thing to do. Declare them when you need them, as you need them. Declaring a list or hash takes up considerable memory, as Perl will pre-declare like 50 (or so) elements that just sit there.

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