Thanks for the info. I'm looking for a programmatic way of doing a translation, that is, a way that a program I write can control the UI rather than depending on the UI of a web page or other desktop program. Do you know of something that meets this criteria? Jamal On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Demetry Yousifidou wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:31:26 +0200 > From: Demetry Yousifidou <demetry.yousifidou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages > > Hi Jamal, try the translator from Google.com -> Language Tools or the > web and the program from www.QuickDic.org. > HTH. > > Demetry > > On 10/14/2008 11:23 PM, Jamal Mazrui wrote: > > With Perl 5.8, I am trying to use the module WWW::Search::Translator, > > which programmatically translates text between different natural languages > > using babel.altavista.com. > > > > When I run the sample code in the documentation, I get an error about a > > missing param function. After web searches, I found that the CGI module > > includes a function by that name, but using that module as well produced > > another error message instead. > > > > Can anyone help? Below is the error message, followed by the code. > > > > Jamal > > > > Undefined subroutine &main::param called at TranLang.pl line 2. > > > > > > use WWW::Search; > > %opts = ( > > lp => param(en_de), > > ); > > $query = "a whole bunch of english text to be translated to german"; > > my $search = new WWW::Search('Translator'); > > $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query),\%opts); > > while (my $result = $search->next_result()) > > { > > $p = $result->raw; > > print "$p"; > > } > > > > > > __________ > > View the list's information and change your settings at > > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > > > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind