Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been asked to write a program that will take user input and make calls to several different search engines then post the results from each. I have some level of control over the different searches. So they all require the same data to be passed and will come up with similar output. However, I don't know how to take the data and use it to call these other searches.. nor do I know how to retrieve their output. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanx MAX

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Re: Searches
by arturo (Vicar) on Oct 03, 2000 at 19:56 UTC
    My first-ever merlyn-like answer:

    There are modules that make what you're attempting to do a lot easier; there's a whole passel of them listed under WWW::Search.

    HTH,

    Philosophy can be made out of anything -- or less

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Re: Searches
by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 03, 2000 at 20:07 UTC
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Re: Searches
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Oct 03, 2000 at 19:42 UTC
    Here is some code that you might find useful: 
    use strict;   # always!

system("netscape", "http://www.metacrawler.com/");

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    (You may also be interested in WWW::Search.)
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