What's with the fork at the end of the while($ref = $result->fetchrow_hashref) loop?

$data and $result are being destroyed in each of your children. That can have unfortunate side effects. You should be using _exit (in POSIX) instead of exit.

General rule: require and use are for modules that have a package statement. do is for those without. This applies here.

As for your actual question, turn on your warnings and pay attention to them. You should be getting a few "Subroutine insertrecord redefined" errors. Suggested fix: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
...
use Scraping::Amazon;
...
Scraping::Amazon::get($ref->{OEM_PartNum}, $ref->{Description});
...

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scraping/amazon.pm: (File "amazon.pm" — note the extension change — in subdirectory "scraping") 

package Scraping::Amazon;

...

sub get {
   ...
}

sub insertrecords {
   ...
}

1;

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You don't have to use a subdirectory. Just remove "Scraping::" from everywhere if you put the modules in the same dir as the main script.

In reply to Re^5: weird issue with HTML::TokeParser and Fork by ikegami
in thread [Click the star to watch this topic] weird issue with HTML::TokeParser and Fork by arikamir

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