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in thread Universal Require

as for the prob i got it working, all it needed was ;
my $content = get $url; changing to my $content = get($url);

Really? I find that hard to believe:

Update: I stand corrected. Had not really understood what the issue was about, out of only reading superficially. Shame on me! Rest of post fundamentally irrelevant now.


$ perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'print get "http://blazar.perlmonk.org/"' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U +S"> <head><title>Michele &quot;blazar&quot; Dondi&#39;s home @ Perlmonk.or +g</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Michele, Dondi, blazar" /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> </head><body><h1>Michele &quot;blazar&quot; Dondi&#39;s home @ Perlmon +k.org</h1> <h2>News</h2> <p>I&#39;ve always been half hearted about blogs. I still am. Well, ye +ah sort of. However I&#39;ve started writing one, with a much irregular freque +ncy, but who cares? Of course, it <em>had</em> to have <code>perl</code> in the domain name: in fact <a href="http://use.perl.org/~blazar/journal/">it +&#39;s at use Perl</a>. And I&#39;m writing more ore less anything that springs +to mind.</p> <h2>Old stuff</h2> <p><small>(The following is all that was here before I added the secti +on above. Not much, eh?)</small></p> <p>No, there&#39;s nothing here yet. You&#39;ll find something more, b +ut not too much, <a href="http://mosquito.scumm.it/~blazar/">here</a>.</p> </body></html>

and

$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -MLWP::Simple -e 'print get "http://blazar.perlm +onk.org/"' use LWP::Simple; print(get('http://blazar.perlmonk.org/')); -e syntax OK