Hi Monks! I've got a perl scripts that runs perl today to clean up a bunch of HTML files. It's a huge resource hog. I was wondering if there might be a better way to do what I'm doing? Here's my code:

my $call_dir = "Bing/1Parsed/Html3";
my $contents_of_file = 1;
#my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new();
my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new({
   tidy_mark => 1,
   #output_xhtml => 1, # yes
   #output_xhtml => 1, # yes
   add_xml_decl => 1, # no
   wrap   => 76,
   error_file => errs.txt,
   char_encoding => utf8,
   indent_cdata => 1,
   clean => 1,
   fix_bad_comments =>1
});

my @files = glob "$call_dir/*.html";
printf "Got %d files\n", scalar @files;

for my $file (@files) {
    
    open my $in_fh, '<', $file 
       or die "Could not open $file : $!"; 
     my $contents_of_file = do { local $/;<$in_fh> };
     close $in_fh;
  
     $tidy->parse( $file, $contents_of_file );
    
     open OUT,'>',$file or die "$!";
     print OUT $tidy->clean( $file, $contents_of_file );
     print "cleaning" . $file;
for my $message ( $tidy->messages ) {
    #print $message->as_string;
}

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Thanks in advance for any help and or insight!

In reply to HTML::Tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by Anonymous Monk

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