Re: Clearing table states

Hi Tim,

This answer is way too late I'm sure. But the workaround with version 
1.08 is to create a new TableExtract object each time you want to parse 
something.

Version 1.09, coming out soon, will automatically reset itself whenever 
you call the parse methods.

Matt

Tim Rushing wrote:

> I'm in the process of prototyping code that is going to run through 
> around 50,000 files, each containing data in a single html table.  I 
> like HTML::TableExtract and would like to use it.  However, I am 
> running into a problem.  It appears that despite my best efforts, I 
> cannot destroy a TableExtract object or clear out its TableState objects.
>
> Instead it appears that as I loop through my files the TableExtract 
> object is continually adding new TableStates.  I have tried declaring 
> the variable using
>
> my $te  = new HTML::TableExtract( depth=>0, count=>0, gridmap=>0)
>
> buried inside a loop that is inside the loop that reads the files 
> in--hoping that it would be destroyed when my code exited the loop.
>
> I have tried explicitly calling the $te->DESTROY method at the bottom 
> of my loop.  This does not generate any errors, but doesn't seem to do 
> anything.
>
> I've only played with about 100 files so far, and each time through 
> the loop, it is progressively slower.
>
> I suppose I could write code to create separate perl scripts using 
> just a few tables at a time and then call those scripts--but I'm 
> hoping I've missed something simple in the documentation.
>
> Is there an explicit way to clear the TableState objects or to destroy 
> and re-instantiate the TableExtract object?
>
>      ---Tim Rushing
>
>
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