This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-t hread-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2015, Larry Wall Binary build 2201 [299574] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Dec 24 2015 12:36:28 #### This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-t hread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2015, Larry Wall Binary build 2201 [299574] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Jan 4 2016 12:12:58 ... This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-t hread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2016, Larry Wall Binary build 2400 [300558] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Jun 9 2016 21:44:59 #### #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; open my $inf, "<", "temp.txt" or die; #This line no longer generates a warning. while (<$inf>) { #while () { my $html = getprint("https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog?q=How%20to%20conduct%20your%20own%20survey%20&search_field=title_starts_with&f%5B-format%5D%5B%5D=Online&commit=Search") or die; } exit; __DATA__ How to conduct your own survey / Priscilla Salant and Don A. Dillman.