As it turns out, WWW::Google::Contacts will not install. After installing MANY other modules (an unbelievable number), it failed because it could not install some dependencies (I forget which ones now). So, that's not going to work, I guess, and there is no way I would try installing it again because of the HUGE number of other modules it brought in. I had to revert my system back to a snapshot I had made earlier just to get rid of the mess.

Perl never used to be like that; I remember when installing modules that sometimes it would bring in two or three others but that thing literally installed modules for over an hour, asking me EVERY SINGLE TIME it found yet another dependency it thought it needed to install. Absolutely ridiculous! Thanks for your help anyway, I'm not faulting you for suggesting it, in fact I'm not sure who's at fault but I just lost any desire I had to mess with Perl again.

In reply to Re^2: How can I get a single record from Google Contacts based on a phone number? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How can I get a single record from Google Contacts based on a phone number? by Anonymous Monk

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