That did work, daxim. I incorporated jdkrahn's criticisms as well. I'm doing more with bliako's scripts employing Getopt::Long but will reply to his meditation. Progress is slow: lots of reading. Sometimes getting the time for an appropriate write-up is the pinch-point. Thank Markov for the rain....

I did get a primitive, working module out of this thread, but as this thread is trailing off, I would like to focus on the last question I asked:

Q6: How would I determine which version of WWW::Google::Translate to require?

I have now gone in and read all I could find at module source. I wish I had done this initially, as I might have patterned my source off of dylan's. One thing I find is this:

Copyright (C) 2017 by Dylan Doxey

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.12.4 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

[download]

Another is:

package WWW::Google::Translate;
 
our $VERSION = '0.10';

[download]

If I had to guess, I might think that this is the only version that has existed, but such an assessment is not made from the point of view of experience. In Makefile.PL , should I just go:

  PREREQ_PM => {
       WWW::Google::Translate              => '.1',
        
    },

[download]

and be done with it? Thanks for your comment,

In reply to Re^4: chunking up texts correctly for online translation by Aldebaran
in thread chunking up texts correctly for online translation by Aldebaran

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