Re: Memory Leaks?

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> But, unfortunately for me, I have some sort of leak somewhere.  (Nice and
> vauge)  In the standard code, for stripping HTML from a rawdata get, it goes
> like:
> 
>  	#Format the page as text
>     $htmldata = HTML::Parse::parse_html($rawdata);
>     $formatter = new HTML::FormatText;
>     $textdata = $formatter->format($htmldata);
> 
> (Which I have embedded in a loop that runs lots and lots 'o times.)
HTML::Parse (and friends) use circular data structures (i.e. $a points to 
$b, which in turn points back to $a), which cannot be free'd by Perl's 
garbage collection. Try this:

>     $htmldata = HTML::Parse::parse_html($rawdata);  
>     $formatter = new HTML::FormatText;  
>     $textdata = $formatter->format($htmldata); 

      # when we're done, free memory
      $htmldata->delete;  # explicitly free allocated memory, since Perl 
                          # can't

This should help...

Marc
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