Hey all - I'm trying to determine if I'm doing something wrong, or if I've stumbled upon an actual bug. I'm trying to use HTML::TableExtract to parse a directory of html files, and I noticed that the memory footprint continues to grow as the process runs. I think I've nailed the problem down to TableExtract not properly destroying the TreeBuilder object or something. I know that the problem doesn't occur when I use TableExtract in its HTML::Parser mode. Here's my test code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use HTML::TableExtract qw(tree);
my $table = "<table>" . "<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr>" x 100 . "</tab
+le>";
my $html = "<html><body>" . $table x 3 . "</body></html>";
foreach ( my $x = 0; $x <= 20; $x++) {
    my $p = HTML::TableExtract->new();
    $p->parse($html);   
    $p->eof;
    $p->delete;
    if (-f  "/proc/$$/statm") {
        my $mem = `cat /proc/$$/statm`;
        $mem =~ s/^(\d+).*/$1/s;
        print "$x: $mem\n";
    } 
}

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Am I just doing something dumb, or should I go ahead and file a bug report? Thanks!

In reply to Possible Memory Leak in HTML::TableExtract by michalgm

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