#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; use LWP::Simple; # Fetch line from while ( ) { # PMID is an 8-digit string, surrounded by "/" and "/" my $pmid = $1 if ( /\/(\d{8})\// ); # Query pmid in http://www.pmid2doi.org/ my $ret = get("http://www.pmid2doi.org/rest/json/doi/$pmid"); unless (defined $ret) { warn "Failed to get doi for '$pmid': $!\n"; next; } # Parse query result, which would be like: # {"pmid":18507872,"doi":"10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89"} if ( $ret =~ /"doi":"(.*?)"}/ ) { my $doi = $1; # Output say $pmid, "\t=>\t", $doi; } else { say "doi not found in '$ret'"; } } exit 0; __DATA__ /xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/UNC00000000000042/00223468/v45i3/S0022346809003820