I have written a code which extracts all the words from an html page, according to some heuristics. the output is correct in this my code, but there is some mysterious memory leak. I am really trying to hone some of my perl skills, but this has me banging my head.

the input is a long long file with many html pages, separated by the http header and some additional information. Some of the code may be a little weird, its kind of slapped together, but the output is what i want. without further ado: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::FormatText;
use File::Slurp;
use Lingua::Stem::Snowball;


$/ = 'warc/0.9 ';
my $sep = 'warc/0.9 ';

open FILE, shift;

open OUT, '>', shift;
open DATA, '>', shift;

my $total = 0;
my $stemmer = Lingua::Stem::Snowball->new( lang => 'en' );

while(<FILE>)
  {
    my $line = $_;
    $line =~ s/$sep//;
    if($line)
      {
        $line =~ /(\d+)\sresponse\s(\S+)\s/i;
        my $id = $1;
        my $url = $2;
        #print "$1, $2\n+++++\n";
        $line =~ s/[^<]*//; #remove everything up to the 1st  html tag
+ (header, etc)
        my $len = length($line);
        if($len < 600000)
          {
            print DATA "$id\t$url\t$total\t$len\n";
            $total += $len;
            #print OUT "$line";
            my $plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html(
+$line));


            $plain_text =~ s/\[image\]//ig;
            $plain_text =~ s/(\S)/\L$1/ig;
            my @words = $plain_text =~ /\b\S+\b/ig;

            #my $stemmer = Lingua::Stem::Snowball->new( lang => 'en' )
+;

            $stemmer->stem_in_place( \@words );

            foreach my $x (@words)
              {
                if($x =~ /^[A-Za-z0-9]+$/ and $x !~  /(http:\/\/(\S+)\
+b)|(&?nbsp)|(\b.*\d{5,
}.*\b)|(
^\d+$)|(\S{32,})/)
                  {
                    print OUT "$x ";
                  }
              }
            print OUT "\n";
            print OUT '+-+-+-+-+', "\n";
          }
      }
  }

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can any monks give me suggestions here?

In reply to Memory Leak? i'm clueless. by downer

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