I'm using parsers which I derived from HTML::Parser. It works fine if I only need one. But if I use two or more at once, like in the code below, the information from the first parser is now identical to the first 
my $old_text = new MUCParser;
$old_text->parse("old_file.html");

print "before\n"
print $old_text->num_of_tags()."\n";

my $new_text = new MUCParser;
$new_text->parse("new_file.html");

print "after\n";
print $old_text->num_of_tags()."\n";
print $new_text->num_of_tags()."\n";

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Output
before
602
after
397
397

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Its like they are writing to the same space in memory but I am not sure why this would happen. Any ideas?

In reply to Parsers overwriting each other by bwgoudey

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