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in thread LWP::Simple Empty File

Just ran the hello world code and it worked fine. Thanks for all your help. I do save files as .pl and then invoke "perl file.pl" in the command prompt.

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Re^7: LWP::Simple Empty File
by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 04, 2012 at 19:38 UTC
    Well, I am sorry that I couldn't be of more help.
    I am just flabbergasted as to how this code not only fails to get the web page $content on your machine, but winds up with a null string for $content instead of an undef value. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
$|=1;   #turn off buffering so we see all the lines

print "starting...get...\n";

my $content = get("http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=957704");
   die "blank content" unless defined $content;

print "ending...get...\n";
print $content;
print "END of CONTENT\n";

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    The above code runs on my machine. This is bizarre.

    I guess now we come down to the very improbable...how did you install LWP::Simple on your Windows machine?

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      I want to thank everyone who helped me with this. Marshall particularly. I don't know what the problem was but I just uninstalled the version I had and installed the latest version of Strawberry Perl again. Voila, LWP:Simple is working now. For completeness, I install LWP:Simple by using CPAN and package in the command prompt.

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