I dont know whether this is a common error but it seems my PERL program is running out of buffer memory. Inside a loop I am processing an array (reading elements and displaying in it--note: for every iteration of the loop the WHOLE array is being scanned once--...the array was created by reading a file in it). I notice that as the number of repitions of the loop increases some characters are progressively clipped off off the end of the array element (I am storing strings). So, when the loop runs the first time, I get the elements I stored in the array, but by the time its in the last iteration, the elements are noticeably clipped from the end. In fact if read the output properly, I find that the clipping is increasing progressively with each iteration, which is ridiculous!

Can someone explain what happened here?