script starts ... ... ... While(25k to 50k records from DB) { my $field = ''; $field = $h->{'HTML_FIELD'} if(defined($h->{'HTML_FIELD'})); $field = &html_parsing($field) if($field); } sub html_parsing { my $raw_html = shift; my $hs = HTML::Strip->new(); my $string = $hs->parse( $raw_html ); ## Problem: here the $string is becoming blank after parsing. $hs->eof; return $string; } ... ... ... script ends