Re^2: WWW-Search module that works

i.e

#! usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Search;


my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Yahoo::UK');





my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("spiderman 3 news");

$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  
while ( my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result() ) { 
    
    print "Adding: ", $oResult->url, "\n";
    
    }
print ref($oSearch);
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Shows nothing (the same with replacing Yahoo::UK with Altavista/Msn/Alltheweb...)

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Re^3: WWW-Search module that works by talexb (Chancellor) on Jun 12, 2007 at 14:18 UTC
OK .. now we're getting somewhere. You've provided some code (great) and told me it outputs nothing. My tendency, whenever I create an object, is to make sure that the object is defined. So, in your example, I would check that `$oSearch` is defined after it's created, and die if not. After that, I'd step through the program using the Perl debugger, and find out what's happening. Dump `$sQuery` and make sure it has something useful in it, and likewise, see what `$oResult` has. Also, your shebang line is wrong. It should probably be `#!/usr/bin/perl -w` [download] Try that out and let us know how it goes for you. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: WWW-Search module that works by coder57 (Novice) on Jun 12, 2007 at 20:21 UTC
I am using activeperl 5.86 so the she bang doesn't matter. The code is per the www-search-yahoo module. I have tried it with many search terms and each show nothing. I have updated to the most current version of www-search for each search engine listed, and the results are still the same where it is meant to print urls, it simply states for example WWW::Search::Yahoo repeatedly	[reply]
Re^5: WWW-Search module that works by talexb (Chancellor) on Jun 13, 2007 at 01:41 UTC
OK, but how about checking that you get a valid object back from the =new= constructor, and how about telling me what you see from within the debugger? Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]
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Re^5: WWW-Search module that works by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2007 at 16:34 UTC
I am using activeperl 5.86 so the she bang doesn't matter. Not true. ActivePerl reads the shebang line and processes the options found on it.	[reply]