Hello all! Right now I'm learning how to use threads and forks. First off, threads are still in beta and my server doesn't allow me to use threads for multi-tasking. So now, I really gotta use forking for a project I'm working on. Right now, a script that I developed will submit to search engines in one process through a foreach loop on a array with the search engine urls. What I'm trying to figure out is how can fork each search engine as individual process so I can get faster submission. I've experimented, but all I can get is the entire script running a zillion times simutaneously, so it submits a url zillion times to a search engine. I don't need code, but just an idea of how to get around this have each engine submission process individual. . .

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$blah='82:84:70:77';
print chr($_) foreach (split/:/,$blah);

can't you just use Parallel or something? this is LWP we're talking about right?

jerry

Well, I got it to work with forks now. The problem that I have with LWP is that people complain to much to me about their ISP not having LWP so I'm trying to recode and add extra features without the use of any other modules that is not included in the standard PERL set. . .