in reply to Can someone elaborate as to why this isn't working

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.


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