Thanks guys for the response...it seems so obvious now...can't believe I couldn't figure it out
No worries Scott, I plan to use this program as a model for many other things besides NCBI.
I am now having another problem that I had working before...I am trying to loop in many individual pieces of text...one at a time, after receiving the response from the server. Here is the code that worked before in a simple manner...
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use lib "/System/Library/Perl";
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

print "Which file do you wish to process?\n";
chomp($file=<STDIN>);
open (FILE, "$file") || die "$!";

print "Please enter name for the output file\n";
chomp($out=<STDIN>);
open (OUT, ">$out") || die "$!";

while (<FILE>) {        
@acc = <FILE>;
}
print "\nPROCESSING file $file...\n";

for ($i=0;$i<=$#acc;$i++) {
$accession = $acc[$i];
chomp $accession;
etc....I have made the necessary corrections now

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I continue to get an error from the server and I only have one sequence in the input file.
Any thoughts??
Thanks again guys!
Dr.J

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