in reply to How to transmit text to Yahoo Content Analysis

This isn't really a Perl question, you know. Nevertheless, I'll do my best.

From the page you linked, the "Request parameters" table says the following about "text":

string (required if url parameter is not used)
(emphasis added).
This leads me to conjecture that you could pass your text in the URL as a parameter, escaping that like one would with any other URL.

Since you're using Perl, perhaps consider a YQL module: there are a few available on CPAN.

~Thomas~ 
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