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gcalc.pl - Google calculator example Copyright, 2004-2005 By John Bokma, http://johnbokma.com/ This script is for educational purposes only. $Id: gcalc.pl 1088 2008-09-30 19:11:55Z john $

use strict; use warnings; use URI::Escape; use LWP::UserAgent; unless ( @ARGV ) { print "usage: gcalc.pl expression\n", " example: gcalc.pl 75 kg in stones\n"; exit( 1 ) ; } my $url = 'http://www.google.com/search?num=1&q=' . uri_escape( join ' ' => @ARGV ); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent => 'Mozilla/5.0' ); my $response = $ua->get( $url ); $response->is_success or die "$url: ", $response->status_line; my $content = $response->content; my ( $result ) = $content =~ m|<td nowrap><font size=\+1><b>(.*?)</b></td>|; if ( $result ) { $result =~ s/<sup>/^/g; $result =~ s/&times;/x/g; $result =~ s/<.+?>//g; print "$result\n"; } else { print "No result\n"; }