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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: this program dumps core
Keywords: format
Message-ID: <10977@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 9 Jan 91 22:40:32 GMT
References: <6626@biophys.zir.ethz.ch>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <6626@biophys.zir.ethz.ch> ruba@molbio.ethz.ch (Rudolf Baumann) writes:
: I have gotten a database file from a Mac from which I want to make a
: nice printout with perl using formatted output. I can't find out why
: this simple program runs for the first five record and then dumps core.

It's difficult to tell without all the input data, but it's very likely
this has been fixed in patch 42, which will come out shortly.  In fact,
patchlevel 42 is going to be very close to version 4.0, modulo a bit of
repackaging and maybe a bug fix or two.

Larry