#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Define library for the 'get' function used in the next section.
# $utils contains route for the utilities.
# $db, $query, and $report may be supplied by the user when prompted;
# if not answered, default values, will be assigned as shown below.
use LWP::Simple;
use utf8;
my $utils = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils";
my $db = "Pubmed";
my $query = $ARGV[0];
my $report = $ARGV[1];
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# $esearch contÁins the PATH & parameters for the ESearch call
# $esearch_result containts the result of the ESearch call
# the results are displayed Ánd parsed into variables
# $Count, $QueryKey, and $WebEnv for later use and then displayed.
my $esearch = "$utils/esearch.fcgi?" .
"db=$db&retmax=1&usehistory=y&term=";
my $esearch_result = get($esearch . $query);
$esearch_result =~
m|(\d+).*(\d+).*(\S+)|s;
my $Count = $1;
my $QueryKey = $2;
my $WebEnv = $3;
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# this area defines a loop which will display $retmax citation results from
# Efetch each time the the Enter Key is pressed, after a prompt.
my $retstart;
my $retmax=3;
for($retstart = 0; $retstart < $Count; $retstart += $retmax) {
my $efetch = "$utils/efetch.fcgi?" .
"rettype=$report&retmode=text&retstart=$retstart&retmax=$retmax&" .
"db=$db&query_key=$QueryKey&WebEnv=$WebEnv";
#print "\nEF_QUERY=$efetch\n";
my $efetch_result = get($efetch);
#open( $fh, '>', \$efetch_result);
print $efetch_result;
#print binmode($fh, ":utf8");
}