---
name: "WWW::Search::PLweb"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-search-perl"
version: "2.24-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/WWW::Search::PLweb"
---

# WWW::Search::PLweb(3pm)

class for searching PLS PLweb search engine

## NAME

WWW::Search::PLweb - class for searching PLS PLweb search engine

## SYNOPSIS

```
    require WWW::Search;
    $search = new WWW::Search('PLweb');
```

## DESCRIPTION

This class is a PLweb specialization of WWW::Search. It queries and interprets searches based on PLweb, by PLS  *http://www.pls.com/*.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

This software assumes that you're using the default output format for a PLweb search.  It should look like this:

```
  VAL DOCUMENT DB SIZE
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  388 Document1 foo 1122 ...
```

## OPTIONS

This search supports standard WWW::Search arguments\

- search\_url

  The PLweb URL to search.  On unix this usually looks like  http://somehost/cgi-bin/iopcode.pl\

- search\_args

  The arguments used for the search engine, separate them by &.

## SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see the WWW::Search manpage,

## AUTHOR

`"WWW::Search::PLweb"` is written by Paul Lindner, \<lindner@itu.int\>

## BUGS

Things not supported: `$result`-\>*raw()*

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997, 98 by the United Nations Administrative Committee  on Coordination (ACC)

All rights reserved.