Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working

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Re: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by tirwhan (Abbot) on Jan 01, 2006 at 12:47 UTC
Running this exact code (with or without strict and warnings enabled) with perl 5.8.4 on Linux works fine, it returns 10 URLs, both at the command line and in the file (WWW::Search version 2.46). You could try using ethereal to view the traffic and see whether something is wrong there, or turn on the `search_debug` and `search_parse_debug` options in native_query. A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines. -- Alan Cox	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by randyk (Parson) on Jan 01, 2006 at 17:14 UTC
This problem, at least on Win32, seems to be with the (older) available WWW-Search and WWW-Search-Yahoo ppm packages. I just placed the most recent versions of these at http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/, which seems to fix this.	[reply]
Re^2: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by coder45 (Initiate) on Jan 02, 2006 at 06:12 UTC
How did you 'replace' them I am a newbie and the option I see seems to install it only, but it says "already installed" for www::search and www;:yahoo	[reply]
Re^3: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by vek (Prior) on Jan 02, 2006 at 08:15 UTC
coder45, taking a quick peek at the `ppm` commands yields the following results: c:\>ppm help Type 'help command' for more detailed help on a command. Commands: describe - describes packages in detail exit - exits the program help - prints this screen, or help on 'command' install - installs packages profiles - manage PPM profiles properties - describes installed packages in detail q - exits the program query - queries installed packages quit - exits the program remove - uninstalls packages repository - adds, removes, or sets repositories s - searches for packages in a repository search - searches for packages in a repository settings - view or set PPM options targets - views or sets target installer backends tree - shows package dependency tree uninstall - uninstalls packages unset - view or set PPM options upgrade - shows availables upgrades for installed packages version - displays the PPM version (3.2) Extra Help Topics: (not commands) ppm_migration - guide for those familiar with PPM prompt - how to interpret the PPM prompt quickstart - a crash course in using PPM unicode - notes about unicode author names [download] So you may want to give the following a try: `c:\>ppm upgrade WWW::Search` [download] Update: Hmm, that won't help you out because it will query the activeperl repository. To re-install from Randy's repository, try the following: `c:\>ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/WWW-Search.ppd -forc +e` [download] Note the `-force` option which will reinstall the package if you already have it installed. -- vek --	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by coder45 (Initiate) on Jan 02, 2006 at 14:34 UTC
Re^5: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by randyk (Parson) on Jan 02, 2006 at 18:52 UTC
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Re: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by serf (Chaplain) on Jan 01, 2006 at 13:22 UTC
Are you doing a `close(FILE1);` [download] after you have finished writing to the file? I'm not familiar with activeperl - but is there a chance it's not flushing the output to the file? (Although I would expect Perl to cleanly flush to and then close the filehandle when the script ends!?)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working by vek (Prior) on Jan 02, 2006 at 08:28 UTC
serf, good guess but activeperl behaves no differently than Perl on any other box in this regard. The buffer will be flushed and the filehandle closed when the program ends. -- vek --	[reply]